Witch bottle

Witch bottles were a common in the British Isles in the 16th and 17th century phenomenon. To protect against witches buried the people bottles of stoneware or glass, into which they put nails, fingernails, human urine and other objects and they corked. So far, archaeologists found 200 copies of such witches bottles. 2009 was found during construction work in Greenwich for the first time a still intact copy.

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