1292 – Builders Putty Poppet Curse 1 of 2

Physical description:

Crude pale-grey poppet made of putty, with strips of grey tissue paper round head and shoulders, and thin brown paper (with writing) round body, and with pins in neck. Very similar to 1293.

Museum classification:

Curses

Size:

190x90x30

Information:

Text by Cecil Williamson reads Pair of figures, male and female, made from builder's putty by a man wishing to be revenged upon another man note pins in head who had gone off with his wife.
Companion to 1293. Louise Fenton has been researching these two poppets. She has discovered that the writing on this poppet includes the name Elliott and part of an address Oakdene Road. The writing on the other poppet also includes an address Oakdene Road, Brockley in Surrey. Louise Fenton has also discovered that Joyce and Dorothy Elliott lived at 65 Oakdene Road in Brockley in the early/mid 1950s but were not living there in 1957. It would seem that one of these women was the target of this curse, which Louise has dated to late 1953 early 1954.

Resource:

Object

Materials:

Builders putty, paper, pins and ribbon

Text by Cecil Williamson reads Pair of figures, male and female, made from builder's putty by a man wishing to be revenged upon another man note pins in head who had gone off with his wife.
Companion to 1293. Louise Fenton has been researching these two poppets. She has discovered that the writing on this poppet includes the name Elliott and part of an address Oakdene Road. The writing on the other poppet also includes an address Oakdene Road, Brockley in Surrey. Louise Fenton has also discovered that Joyce and Dorothy Elliott lived at 65 Oakdene Road in Brockley in the early/mid 1950s but were not living there in 1957. It would seem that one of these women was the target of this curse, which Louise has dated to late 1953 early 1954.