278 – Bowl with lid
- Physical description:
- Pottery bowl with handle and lid, originally containing grave dust and a metal ring attached to a square metal plate. However, the grave dust was lost in the 2004 flood.
- Museum classification:
- Spells & Charms
- Size:
- 200mm
- Information:
Original text by Cecil Williamson: 'A covered handled bowl, a product of the Cornish based pottery of Bernard Leach at St Ives, containing baked and ground grave dust with a disinterred coffin ring resting on top. I know what you are thinking - black magic again, wrong. Surprise, surprise, it is beneficent magic designed to bless and to make things prosper and grow - gardeners would term it spiritual bone meal. The witch holding the pan by the handle parades around the person, house, place or thing to be blessed, taking as she goes pinches of dust betwixt finger and thumb, which she casts and sprinkles around the blessed one. Presented by an anonymous person living in Ludgvan. The druids did just the same thing.'
- Resource:
- Object
- Materials:
- Pottery, metal
- Copyright ownership:
- Copyright to The Museum of Witchcraft Ltd.
Original text by Cecil Williamson: 'A covered handled bowl, a product of the Cornish based pottery of Bernard Leach at St Ives, containing baked and ground grave dust with a disinterred coffin ring resting on top. I know what you are thinking - black magic again, wrong. Surprise, surprise, it is beneficent magic designed to bless and to make things prosper and grow - gardeners would term it spiritual bone meal. The witch holding the pan by the handle parades around the person, house, place or thing to be blessed, taking as she goes pinches of dust betwixt finger and thumb, which she casts and sprinkles around the blessed one. Presented by an anonymous person living in Ludgvan. The druids did just the same thing.'