How to Kill a Witch – The Reigate witch bottle
The Timeline of Britain
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May 24, 2007
The Reigate witch bottle
What do you do if you find yourself bewitched? If you find you are constantly out of sorts, and you just know someone has put the evil eye on you? The answer is obvious: you must set about killing the witch who has bewitched you. But how do you set about killing a witch?
Well, the first thing you do is to get a witch bottle. Any old bottle will do – often they are made of pottery – the type knows as bellarmines – but sometimes, as in this case, it is a wine bottle made of glass. In fact this was rather an old bottle, for it was made about 1685, but it was not buried till some time after 1720, so it was already some 40 years old when it was finally buried.
https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/specials/timeline/how-to-kill-a-witch-the-reigate-witch-bottle.htm
