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Witchcraft objects
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John Carman <[log in to unmask]>
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HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 1 Mar 1999 14:12:16 +0100
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This has nothing to do with bottles, but...
 
Ely Museum in Cambridgeshire, England has a child's shoe from Elizabethan
(late 16th century) times, found in a house chimney of that date.  The
explanation for this is that the shoe was a device to protect the house
from the malign acts of witches against the inhabitants of the house.
 
John Carman (former Curator of Ely Museum)
Clare Hall
Cambridge CB3 9AL
Uk

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