Showing posts with label pitt rivers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pitt rivers. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Witchcraft, Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford
Ancient ex-votos to thank religious figures for curing diseases, excavated near Rome
"Object, said to be a toad, stuck with thorns for witchcraft purposes"
"Bullock's heart, pierced with large nails & thorns, found in a chimney, Shutes Hill Farm, Chipstable, Somerset, 1892; placed there to cause harm to someone by 'witchcraft.'"
A beeswax figure used as a "voodoo doll."
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