Between The Sixteenth And Eighteenth Centuries, “Witch Bottles” Filled With Thorns, Nails, Urine, And Other Objects Were Thought To Protect Against Witches

And after being introduced by colonial immigrants, the witch bottle tradition persevered well into the twentieth century.

Still, there are less than a dozen concrete and documented cases of witch bottle use in the United States; meanwhile, there are nearly two hundred documented examples from Great Britain.

Researchers at the University of Hertfordshire and the Museum of London Archaeology are confident that there were more cases of witch bottle use, though.

So, in April of 2019, they launched an investigation known as the “bottles concealed and revealed” project– a three-year-long effort aimed to form a comprehensive survey of all known witch bottle examples in England.

And in addition to documenting witch bottle usage, the team also hopes to gain a stronger understanding of how this practice rose in popularity and how the phenomenon impacted medicinal ideas and beliefs.

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