1293 – Poppet: Curse
- Physical description:
- Crude pale-grey poppet made of putty, with two strips of thin brown paper (with writing) wrapped round shoulders and pins in head. Very similar to 1292.
- Museum classification:
- Curses
- Information:
- Original text by Cecil Williamson: 'In this glass box are a selection of poppet dolls as one finds them up and down the counties of Devon and Cornwall. The string-line figure is not a common type and the one made from bamboo sticks is a strange poppet, being a love doll made by the Egyptian mistress of a Devon- born navy man. A tale with a sad ending 1944. Plymouth.' Another 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 1292. Louise Fenton has been researching these two poppets. She has discovered that the writing on the poppet includes the name Ros Wood and a partial address ' Oakdene Road, Brockley (in Surrey). She has also discovered that Ros and David Wood lived at 50 Oakdene Road, Brockley in the mid 1950s (the house didn't exist until 1952). It would seem that Ros Wood was the target of this curse, which Louise has dated to late 1953/early 1954.
- Resource:
- Object
- Materials:
- Clay/putty, paper Original text by Cecil Williamson: 'In this glass box are a selection of poppet dolls as one finds them up and down the counties of Devon and Cornwall. The string-line figure is not a common type and the one made from bamboo sticks is a strange poppet, being a love doll made by the Egyptian mistress of a Devon- born navy man. A tale with a sad ending 1944. Plymouth.' Another 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 1292. Louise Fenton has been researching these two poppets. She has discovered that the writing on the poppet includes the name Ros Wood and a partial address ' Oakdene Road, Brockley (in Surrey). She has also discovered that Ros and David Wood lived at 50 Oakdene Road, Brockley in the mid 1950s (the house didn't exist until 1952). It would seem that Ros Wood was the target of this curse, which Louise has dated to late 1953/early 1954.