233 – Stones in bag Curse

Physical description:

Black agricultural plastic bag weighted with stones.

Museum classification:

Curses

Size:

310x130x70

Information:

Original text by Cecil Williamson reads This ill wishing death charm is of recent construction and use. Indeed I witnessed it being used. This was the way of it. Bad blood between neighbours, abuse followed by personal attack, followed by all manner of hexing threats acting on the advice of a local witch, to whom the aggressive one had been to enlist her help in this private war. I set up a night watch in the house of the persons being harassed, as expected on the night of the full moon and a little after three a.m. a cloak-shrouded figure was to be seen moving slowly up the garden lawn at the rear of the house. Shortly the figure stopped and started to rotate round and round and round, just as an athlete does when throwing the hammer. Then all of a sudden something flew from the arms of the rotating figure to fly up through the air directly towards me, where I was on watch at the window of the master bedroom on the first floor of the house. There was a heavy thud as something hit the dormer gable above the window. Instantly I pressed the switch which did two things. It filled the window with a blaze of red light and it set off the piercing blast of a yacht's claxon. I was making use of the witches' tactic of fighting scare with scare. Yest, you can indeed scare a ghost. The result of this instant release of light and sound was dramatic. The attacking neighbour was found unconscious from fright on the lawn and that was the end of the story. Later she moved to another district. Ah yes, the black agricultural plastic bag with its testicle like weighted arrangement - an extremely nasty and dangerous affair. Something to be left well alone, that which is to be seen here has been, one can say, defused, by the removal of the harmful part of the death charm.

Resource:

Object

Materials:

Plastic, stone metal wire

Copyright ownership:

Copyright to The Museum of Witchcraft Ltd.

Original text by Cecil Williamson reads This ill wishing death charm is of recent construction and use. Indeed I witnessed it being used. This was the way of it. Bad blood between neighbours, abuse followed by personal attack, followed by all manner of hexing threats acting on the advice of a local witch, to whom the aggressive one had been to enlist her help in this private war. I set up a night watch in the house of the persons being harassed, as expected on the night of the full moon and a little after three a.m. a cloak-shrouded figure was to be seen moving slowly up the garden lawn at the rear of the house. Shortly the figure stopped and started to rotate round and round and round, just as an athlete does when throwing the hammer. Then all of a sudden something flew from the arms of the rotating figure to fly up through the air directly towards me, where I was on watch at the window of the master bedroom on the first floor of the house. There was a heavy thud as something hit the dormer gable above the window. Instantly I pressed the switch which did two things. It filled the window with a blaze of red light and it set off the piercing blast of a yacht's claxon. I was making use of the witches' tactic of fighting scare with scare. Yest, you can indeed scare a ghost. The result of this instant release of light and sound was dramatic. The attacking neighbour was found unconscious from fright on the lawn and that was the end of the story. Later she moved to another district. Ah yes, the black agricultural plastic bag with its testicle like weighted arrangement - an extremely nasty and dangerous affair. Something to be left well alone, that which is to be seen here has been, one can say, defused, by the removal of the harmful part of the death charm.