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2. Witch bottle - Wikipedia

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   A witch bottle is a apotropaic magical item used as protection against witchcraft. They are described in historical sources from England and the United States . The earliest surviving mention is from seventeenth-century England.

3. Apotropaic magic - Wikipedia

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   Apotropaic marks, also called 'witch marks' or 'anti-witch marks' in Europe, are symbols or patterns scratched on the walls, beams and thresholds of buildings to protect them from witchcraft or evil spirits. They have many forms; in Britain they are often flower-like patterns of overlapping circles. [25] such as hexafoils.

4. Mojo (African-American culture) - Wikipedia

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   Mojo containers are bags, gourds, bottles, shells, and other containers. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The making of mojo bags in Hoodoo is a system of African-American occult magic. The creation of mojo bags is an esoteric system that involves sometimes housing spirits inside of bags for either protection, healing, or harm and to consult with spirits.

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6. Bartmann jug - Wikipedia

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   In the 17th century Bartmann jugs were employed as witch bottles, a popular type of magic item which was filled with various objects such as human urine, hair and magical charms, which were supposed to benefit their owners or harm their enemies. Bottles with malevolent-looking face masks, typical of the period, were routinely chosen for this ...

7. Witch ball - Wikipedia

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   A witch ball on display at Whitby Museum in Yorkshire. A witch ball is a hollow sphere of glass. Witch balls were hung in cottage windows in 17th- and 18th-century England to ward off evil spirits, witches, evil spells, ill fortune and bad spirits. [1] The witch ball were used to ward off evil spirits in the English counties of East Sussex and ...

8. “History Cool Kids”: 91 Interesting Pictures From The Past

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   Image credits: historycoolkids The History Cool Kids Instagram account has amassed an impressive 1.5 million followers since its creation in 2016. But the page’s success will come as no surprise ...

9. Category:Objects believed to protect from evil - Wikipedia

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   Witch ball; Witch bottle; Wolfsangel This page was last edited on 13 April 2022, at 05:54 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...