After apotropaics (ritual protection marks) featuring on a wooden object on the Antiques Roadshow, here they are again cropping up…
Ritual Protection Marks & Ritual Practices
Don’t Stop Believing! In 1979, fire ripped through the 14th century barn at Bredon; a conflagration which created enough damage…
Spiritual Middens: Foundation Deposit, Spirit Trap or Counter Witchcraft Measure?
A Peck O’ Trouble: The Archaeology of Witch Bottles
Archaeologists are now systematically recording stoneware bellarmine (or Bartmann) jugs found buried beneath the thresholds or under the hearthstones of…
Ritual Protection Marks & Ritual Practices 