When I first worked in historical archaeology @ Plimoth Plantation [recreated 1620's village], Plymouth, Massachusetts, decades ago in an undisturbed trash pit dating from the mid-late 17th century in the modern original town of Plymouth, I found an odd 1652-dated Massachusetts silver "Pine Tree" schilling that was bent at about a 90 degree angle. We had no idea why it should be there until, years later, I found a passage in a contemporary account recommending ways to cast off a witch's curse. One of these stated that a silver schilling be bent over on the edge of a table or such suitable form and, without looking, cast it over the shoulder behind you. So, I suspect that the bent schilling was just such a thing. Odd thing is, I wondered if unbending it might somehow reactivate the curse! [The bent schilling was duly accessioned into the archaeological lab field collection.]
As a practicing witch, rusty nails are for protection, pins for harm to those who harm you, and its still a very common set of ingredients used in protection jars today
Would be kind of funny to see archeologists opening witch bottles made of Gerber baby food jars centuries from now with such care. Lol, baby food jars, pickle jars, oil bottles, mason jars, recycled apothecary bottles, etc.. we use what we have on hand. 😉
I apologise for my totally unnecessary and cruel comment I posted below. I hadn't even watched the entire presentation when I rashly posted my awful comment. By the end of the presentation (which I very much enjoyed), I thought Raksha came across as a warm, engaged and engaging presenter. Please accept my apology Raksha.
I think it's interesting that people were afraid of being bewitched but they themselves practiced witchcraft by making these "witch bottles" As a practicing witch myself, this makes me laugh. I'm glad I live in current times.
This is really interesting. I’m of Pennsylvania Dutch (Deutsch) decent and there is a folk magic/ healing practice called Braucherei that was brought when they emigrated to Northern America. this practice of burying bottles with sharp objects, etc. is still done today, for similar reasons.
Practicing witch myself, and have made witch bottles and bags myself. This was very interesting. I’m very interested in the fact that they used mercury in some. Very wrekt. Also, that implies they knew mercury could be harmful. Also, those people that practiced magic WERE Christian. Everyone was Christian in England in those days. So to protect against those casting curses and bewitchment, it makes compete sense to use bits of scripture to protect from evil.
If you are a practicing witch how could you possibly Make a witch bottle? That's like saying superman eats kryptonite. Also all religions are birthed of magic. Even yahweh was a magical icon who had tattoos of the 7 vowels on his chest. Say the spell right and the vowels would light up and do magic stuff. Same with Jesus. He used to be a protection magical thingie. Jesus was their hollow wax doll. Non of it is real. Witches aren't real. Religion isn't real. Gods aren't real
@@phillipstroll7385 witch bottle = contained spell protecting against bewitchment or negative spell workings As a practicing witch of the modern definition, I am perfectly capable of doing both beneful and baneful workings. So, yes, I can, in fact make a witch bottle.
Mercury was commonly used by doctors till the late 19th century, amongst other things too. Other risky mercury jobs included mirror makers and "mad" hatters. When my grandmother was in school and broke a Mercury thermometer she was made to clean it up and take the mercury in her hands to the office (this would have been mid to late 50s). I would also argue against everyone being Christian at ANY one point in time. I am also what some may call a witch, a British one ..... I admire your tenacity
Hello, Raksha! I'm a Time Team fan. I always enjoyed your cheerfullness there. I haven't seen you on those programs lately. Quite a joy to see you here today. Take care of yourself. Stay healthy.i
Witch Bottles are made with moving energy and intent. The rusty nails and sharp things and dirt( maybe from the victims yard) salt , urine and/ or vinegar may also be used.
Fascinating what our ancestors thought would help us from other world troubles. How far our universe has progressed and that people still are superstitious about these items. Old world technologies. Love the history.
I know this is educational and loved every minute of this video! but I couldn't help but scream laugh when she referred to concerns about opening the bottles and "releasing hell" and how she calmly looks at the camera and says no worries they were already open xD
You don't need to worry; they are made for a specific person. If it is over 100 years old, that person is long dead. The spell is ended. I can't wait to hear what other information you are able to gain from them, I'll keep my eye open for your research!
Whilst doing renovations on our 600 year old cottage, we found a leather shoe hidden in the foundation just under the stairs in the corner of the building. We also found a plough share above the door lintel, and just for good luck we found the skeleton of a cat holed up in a wall. Over the fireplace on the main beam was inscribed a ‘daisy wheel’, which was there as protection from malign forces too. We lived in this cottage for 35 years and it was a magical place full of peace!
@@ffrreeddyy123456….the cat’s internment was intentional, because of how and where it was placed. We replaced all the items including the skeleton back into the places they were found and we added a ‘time capsule’ about ourselves as a family, together with currency, newspapers, a pair of leather shoes and a potted history of us and the times we were living in.
In Virginia close to the Colonial, old Jamestown area, when they were widening the interstate, one of these bottles were found and it was determined to be for good luck and to keep evil away. I think it was reburied.
Make your own witch bottle. Take a container that holds liquid and can be sealed. Fill it with sharp or reflective objects and your own biowaste. Urine, menstrual blood, spit, hair, etc. Bury this jar in a safe place. The biowaste will stand in for you so curses will go into the jar and be broken on the sharps and reflected back at the witch from the shiny stuff.
@@raymondhoule6108 Why? The person is long dead, and opening it helps us understand them and their beliefs. We dig people up and study them, unsure why a bottle with some superstitious items in them should be revered and untouchable.
Wow what disgusting personalities on display in these comments. Thanks very much to Raksha and the team, this was a fascinating video and well delivered.
There is no disrespect emptying these bottles to study their contents. If the people who made them where here they would likely give the item to you if you asked for it. These are not saints bones. They had power but are not considered sacred.
Me too! This museum is a must visit if ever you get the chance! It's inside the Oxford university museum and is my favourite place in the world! Since I was small child growing up in Oxfordshire, I have loved visiting this place!!
It's never too late. Go for it. If that is what you want then I think doing a job you love even for 3 years is better than doing a job you hate for your lifetime.
With the bent or broken iron items. The Celts use to make offerings of swords, dress pins etc...and prior to offering they would bend / break the offering. Could this be the reason for the damaged items?
I remember reading that bending or breaking the offered item took it out of commission in this world. Maybe that means it also allows the item to become effective in the otherworld, or the place between worlds.
I'd be keen on examining some of the research they have that's lead them to their hypothesis on the purposes of these bottles. From personal generational knowledge, those are often made for protection from something or someone. Always loaded with sharps of various sorts and ideally the menstrual blood of the individual to be protected (the spell literally calls for bleeding into the jar under a certain lunar phase, gross) for maximum strength but other bodily fluids can be substituted but at cost of strength of effectiveness. Once completed the bottle is to be buried in the vicinity of the one being protected. If there are a number of bottles found in a region you'll probably find old evidence of a coven in the area or a solitary practioner acting as the local healer. Those found here and there with no concentration of sites suggests a solitary practioner that remained covert.
Anytime opening a closed vessel, I respectfully recommend the person closest to the action wear not only gloves, but a standard N95 mask. Not so visible as the powder and larger objects, even finer powder not visible during recovery my be released during the emptying process. Everthing from iron oxides to common toxic compounds to who knows, dandruff (!) and of course biologicals like nasty spores. Im not kidding about dandruff
Copper is found as nuggets and chunks and can be cold hammered, the North American native people cold hammered copper. Iron however is created and made from rock in what was early on seen as a magical practice.
So urine, iron nails bent or not? Mirror what kind? Double sided mirror? Or normal mirror a piece of mirror or whole small mirror? Is urine alone enough? Do I have to put hair and nails as well? Asking for protecting a person and lifting the cursed that is cast, to bring back the curse to the curser the witch, thank you
All that will work. (Ive been practicing 30 years.) The main thing about it, is that you use Directed Will to focus your intent. The components should have symbolic meaning for you. (Sharp things make the sender uncomfortable, bent nails disperse negative energy, broken mirrors do both, a variety of different things give more "weight" to your defenses, urine hair or blood,, is used to direct the negative energy to the bottle like a decoy,, etc) Visualize the negative energy bouncing back to where it came. I would recommend not visualizing a specific source (person) because there is always the chance that it could actually be coming from someplace/person that's unexpected. You want to reflect the energy,, not attack someone.. Bury the jar at a nearby crossroads, a gate,, a driveway,, or at the 4 compass points around your property...... again it should have meaning for you. Pieces of mirrors facing outwards, placed in your windows will work as well. There are many ways to disperse negative energy. But if it's physical, if an actual person is harassing you, call the police and take a self-defence course. Also, pieces of hematite buried at the 4 compass points or in your window sills, will ground out negative energy. Like I said, many ways. One final thought, in my personal experience, EVERYTHING is energy.....and energy is energy. There is no black or white, only grey, intent and repercussions...... Everything vibrates higher, lower, it changes......change your energy vibration and "lower/negative" energy can't find you. Just my experience.. I answered because this one video popped up out of nowhere. I don't generally answer questions online, but something a out your comment......idk. I hope this helps.
@@samantharamesh7572 Your welcome. I forgot to mention, after your bottle is finished and buried. Don’t wonder if you did it correctly, unless you did something that felt “bad/wrong” then it’s fine. Don’t wonder if it’s working. It is. NEVER question the magic. Doubt will allow weak spots or holes to form. You kill the energy by questioning it. Once completed and buried just ACCEPT that it is working. If you find yourself thinking about it, or if your still getting a bit of negative energy seeping through, remember, it most likely won’t be instantaneous, it takes a little time. Instead of questioning, reinforce it by using your original visualization and use Directed Will to send some energy to top off the energy of the bottle. There is power in repetition. There is no way to know how much energy will be needed to reverse the negative energy, but when you find yourself thinking about it, that’s usually the protection needing a boost. Think of it as a rechargeable battery. Lol. As it works, you will find yourself thinking about/recharging it less and less until all the negative attack is reversed and gone. No need to dig it up or dismantle it later. It will always guard you from attacks if you give it a boost every few months. I’ve had four at the compass points of my property for 15+ years. Still going. Lol
The first rule of witchcraft is to harm none. You must focus on positive, protective energy. If your goal is getting revenge on the person who placed the curse, then you may have bad consequences return to you. After all, wishing ill on someone, even a bad person, makes you just as bad as them. Be pure of heart and full of love, because all magic can come back to you. :)
@@InsertHandleHere968 It is oral tradition passed down for many many generations. There are no 'rules', but the wisdom of our ancestors tells us to be cautious. That everything we send out will return, and that you should never send out any energy unless it is something you would like to receive. Of course protection and self defense are fine. However, revenge attacks are building on the hate and negativity, not diffusing them and working towards peace and love. If you speak with any elders in the tradition, they will advise you that "harm none" is part of the Wiccan Rede. It is not a rule... it's a truth and a warning, advice and wisdom we don't take lightly.
You never know what hazards might be in old sealed containers. There’s an imperial tomb in China that archaeologists still won’t open bc records suggest it contains a moat of liquid Mercury, and the pent up fumes could cause respiratory or neurological harm or even death. If you were listening, you noticed they said these bottles sometimes contain Mercury. And that’s just one harmful substance.
@@thepeacefish Mercury is a poison not hell isn't it I'm not saying don't wear PVP opening one up just don't expect to be hell or a geene to pop out of it
I wondered if there were some witches bottles in wiltshire? in some of the villages long ago? i enjoyed this history peek into witches bottles and the belief around it.
Should the iron nails have to be bent or not before putting inside the jar? to counter back, To bring back the curse to the witch, and how many nails to use and What kind of specific jar to be used? Thank you
I'm surprised there aren't more bottles with bits of the bible in them. I can see the logic in the mindset of the cunning man/woman deciding it should be added. It could be seen as using the word of god for defense. Particular verses being cut up could be due to the correlation between that verse and a type of bewitchment.
This is a fair point but I think this is a modern idea - we may be able to get a spare bible at any dollar store, but we have to remember we’re talking about the 17th century. Although the printing press had been invented, printed books were still very expensive and most rural people (such as in the areas where these bottles were found) would have been illiterate. So there are several reasons they may not have had a bible of their own in the house, and if they did it’s very unlikely that they would have considered tearing something valuable and sacred into pieces. That’s if they were even able to read which passages would have been relevant.
Regarding the bending or destruction of items, an animistic perspective might provide a theory to help us understand why this was practiced. In an animistic perspective everything has a spirit, even inanimate objects were thought to be alive so to speak. Breaking, destroying or otherwise killing it was to send its' spirit to the spirit world. Where I am from, the First Nations peoples had a burial practice of breaking items such as bows, arrows, pottery etc. and placing them in the grave with the deceased. This served two functions, but primarily it was to release the spirit of the item so that it might travel to the spirit world with the person to the "the land of the dead" to be used the same as it would have been in the world of the living. I find it very frustrating the inability of archeologists (and other scientific disciplines) to broaden their understanding of material culture beyond the material they directly deal with. The deeper understanding of material culture is oft found within and associated with the songs, stories, folklore, and heaven forbid (pun intended) the religious/ritual and spiritual practices/beliefs of a culture.
Definitely still practicing, I have multiple witch bottles buried outside right now, but I don’t recommend it because I’ve been possessed from it before
I know - imagine expecting people to enjoy listening to experts about something in their chosen field. You'd almost think that not every person is as staggeringly shallow as you are.
@@jonnylumberjack6223 I lament you missed my point. I'm most happy to listen to an expert convey information. On the other hand, it's a terrible death to be talked to death. The experts in this video repeat the same information over and over. I understood what they said the first time! Again, this video ought to have been about 10 minutes long.
I come from a long long line of different......almost my whole family are casters....cunning folk...witches of white......when I was 27-28 was at a low point in my life and therefore susceptible , open, and unguarded and something hit my body so hard one night when I was in conversation with my wife.....knocked my essence and my soul completely out of my body.....when my soul and essence returned directly to the vessel of my body I was in a spiritual war with something that called itself 13 and my wife called my mother and this thing inside me and my mother whom I now know as a very powerful force, (we are welsh, Celtic, basque , Scottish descent) had a conversation in a tongue that I didn’t know but understood completely......my mother had my wife get a glass bottle..putt safety pins in it, pee in it , one drop of blood and spit........and she said one word......one word with 13 letters in a language so ancient it sounded almost animal instead of human..........when it was said out loud, the thing that was in me vacated instantly and went into that glass bottle.....which my mom had me cap quickly, i lit a candle and drip’d the wax over the bottle wrapped it with a binding cord 1n2....3n2...5n4...9n4.. 13n2.........15 times take it outside call to the north n south east n West and ask for permission to disturb the earth by the breaking of dawns light and bury that bottle at a certain depth.......some of those “witch jars or bottles” should prolly be left alone for the greater good of good!!!
i would suggest "the archaeology of ritual and magic" by Ralph Merrifield.a very high quality book full of photos and detail of witch bottles.
Ooh. Thank you. I will be looking into that. I’m interested in the witch bottles. And the swan burials elsewhere. I’ve gotta go look those up again.
Thank you for the recommendation.
Thank you for the suggestion.🙂👍
When I first worked in historical archaeology @ Plimoth Plantation [recreated 1620's village], Plymouth, Massachusetts, decades ago in an undisturbed trash pit dating from the mid-late 17th century in the modern original town of Plymouth, I found an odd 1652-dated Massachusetts silver "Pine Tree" schilling that was bent at about a 90 degree angle. We had no idea why it should be there until, years later, I found a passage in a contemporary account recommending ways to cast off a witch's curse. One of these stated that a silver schilling be bent over on the edge of a table or such suitable form and, without looking, cast it over the shoulder behind you. So, I suspect that the bent schilling was just such a thing. Odd thing is, I wondered if unbending it might somehow reactivate the curse! [The bent schilling was duly accessioned into the archaeological lab field collection.]
That is super interesting. Thank you for adding this!
As a practicing witch, rusty nails are for protection, pins for harm to those who harm you, and its still a very common set of ingredients used in protection jars today
Aren’t these bottles supposed to keep people safe from you?
Would be kind of funny to see archeologists opening witch bottles made of Gerber baby food jars centuries from now with such care. Lol, baby food jars, pickle jars, oil bottles, mason jars, recycled apothecary bottles, etc.. we use what we have on hand. 😉
I apologise for my totally unnecessary and cruel comment I posted below. I hadn't even watched the entire presentation when I rashly posted my awful comment. By the end of the presentation (which I very much enjoyed), I thought Raksha came across as a warm, engaged and engaging presenter.
Please accept my apology Raksha.
good to see Raksha from the original time team doing other things
Always a pleasure to hear/see Raksha Dave. Good, informative program. Thank you
I think it's interesting that people were afraid of being bewitched but they themselves practiced witchcraft by making these "witch bottles" As a practicing witch myself, this makes me laugh. I'm glad I live in current times.
This is really interesting.
I’m of Pennsylvania Dutch (Deutsch) decent and there is a folk magic/ healing practice called Braucherei that was brought when they emigrated to Northern America.
this practice of burying bottles with sharp objects, etc. is still done today, for similar reasons.
Lady: there's two bottles on the table. Hand me one.
Guy: Which bottle?
Lady: Yes.
Guy: No, which bottle?
Lady: Yes there is. There's two.
I want to see more Raksha Dave!!!
She's a treasure and a wonderful wealth of knowledge.
Practicing witch myself, and have made witch bottles and bags myself. This was very interesting. I’m very interested in the fact that they used mercury in some. Very wrekt.
Also, that implies they knew mercury could be harmful.
Also, those people that practiced magic WERE Christian. Everyone was Christian in England in those days. So to protect against those casting curses and bewitchment, it makes compete sense to use bits of scripture to protect from evil.
If you are a practicing witch how could you possibly Make a witch bottle? That's like saying superman eats kryptonite. Also all religions are birthed of magic. Even yahweh was a magical icon who had tattoos of the 7 vowels on his chest. Say the spell right and the vowels would light up and do magic stuff. Same with Jesus. He used to be a protection magical thingie. Jesus was their hollow wax doll. Non of it is real. Witches aren't real. Religion isn't real. Gods aren't real
@@phillipstroll7385
witch bottle = contained spell protecting against bewitchment or negative spell workings
As a practicing witch of the modern definition, I am perfectly capable of doing both beneful and baneful workings. So, yes, I can, in fact make a witch bottle.
@@kitdubhran2968 I know what it is.
@@kitdubhran2968 lmmfao
Mercury was commonly used by doctors till the late 19th century, amongst other things too. Other risky mercury jobs included mirror makers and "mad" hatters. When my grandmother was in school and broke a Mercury thermometer she was made to clean it up and take the mercury in her hands to the office (this would have been mid to late 50s). I would also argue against everyone being Christian at ANY one point in time. I am also what some may call a witch, a British one ..... I admire your tenacity
Hello, Raksha! I'm a Time Team fan. I always enjoyed your cheerfullness there. I haven't seen you on those programs lately. Quite a joy to see you here today. Take care of yourself. Stay healthy.i
As a modern witch, and having a history degree, I enjoyed this video. Well done!
Witch Bottles are made with moving energy and intent. The rusty nails and sharp things and dirt( maybe from the victims yard) salt , urine and/ or vinegar may also be used.
Thank you for staging this presentation. Some of us in the audience are logical and appreciate scholarly research.
...and somehow respect is "unscholarly"?
@@raymondhoule6108 think how happy the witch is to have this done. Lol
They maybe a scholar but not in this subject! Foolish and for educated people, what they have done is stupid .
Rashka is a legend! I was so pleased to see her face when I click this video.
Personaly i would not worry of unleashing hell but 17th century microbes.
Fascinating what our ancestors thought would help us from other world troubles. How far our universe has progressed and that people still are superstitious about these items. Old world technologies. Love the history.
If I thought it would do any good I would make a witch bottle myself! I suppose that was the idea,better than doing nothing.
I know this is educational and loved every minute of this video! but I couldn't help but scream laugh when she referred to concerns about opening the bottles and "releasing hell" and how she calmly looks at the camera and says no worries they were already open xD
2 self confessed history geeks/eggheads from the US~Adam and Mary in NH---Loved this!
You don't need to worry; they are made for a specific person. If it is over 100 years old, that person is long dead. The spell is ended. I can't wait to hear what other information you are able to gain from them, I'll keep my eye open for your research!
It would be cool to have a future program on shoe magic - as in, shoes found walled up in houses, etc.
You don’t store your shoes in the wall?
Whilst doing renovations on our 600 year old cottage, we found a leather shoe hidden in the foundation just under the stairs in the corner of the building. We also found a plough share above the door lintel, and just for good luck we found the skeleton of a cat holed up in a wall. Over the fireplace on the main beam was inscribed a ‘daisy wheel’, which was there as protection from malign forces too. We lived in this cottage for 35 years and it was a magical place full of peace!
@@serenitybay5544 it’s sad to think that cat could have accidentally got stuck in there too :/
@@ffrreeddyy123456….the cat’s internment was intentional, because of how and where it was placed. We replaced all the items including the skeleton back into the places they were found and we added a ‘time capsule’ about ourselves as a family, together with currency, newspapers, a pair of leather shoes and a potted history of us and the times we were living in.
@@serenitybay5544 That is so interesting; thanks for sharing :)
In Virginia close to the Colonial, old Jamestown area, when they were widening the interstate, one of these bottles were found and it was determined to be for good luck and to keep evil away. I think it was reburied.
Oh my it is good to see you. Thank you for the video.
If there's dust on the bottle, it gets sweeter with time.
But if there's dust IN the bottle... wait that's not how the song goes...
Make your own witch bottle. Take a container that holds liquid and can be sealed. Fill it with sharp or reflective objects and your own biowaste. Urine, menstrual blood, spit, hair, etc. Bury this jar in a safe place. The biowaste will stand in for you so curses will go into the jar and be broken on the sharps and reflected back at the witch from the shiny stuff.
Broken mirrors serve double duty.
Don't forget the binding properties of pins, nails, etc. Especially used nails because they have bound things before and are experienced.
Charming! 🤮
I've only heard of witch bottles, but never seen one so this was interesting to see.
They open the bottles at 13:19 because I know that none of us here are actually willing to sit through 13 minutes of non-stop blabbering.
Thank you!
HEY I saw you on time team! good show!
Very well done. Thank you for posting.
I thought they were all afraid of Raksha, standing so far off from her......then realized the Covid precautions lol. Interesting subject!
Not sure I'm good with this. This was really important to someone and really should be respected.
They were deposited as apotropaic against witchcraft
@@robynmeyer3262 And? As I said these were put there for a reason. As such should be respected and left alone.
They're long gone, no hex will bother them.
@@raymondhoule6108 Why? The person is long dead, and opening it helps us understand them and their beliefs. We dig people up and study them, unsure why a bottle with some superstitious items in them should be revered and untouchable.
It’s just a load of superstitious nonsense! 🤣
Wow what disgusting personalities on display in these comments. Thanks very much to Raksha and the team, this was a fascinating video and well delivered.
There is no disrespect emptying these bottles to study their contents. If the people who made them where here they would likely give the item to you if you asked for it. These are not saints bones. They had power but are not considered sacred.
It is totally disrespectful to open them .
My friend has justtaken a newly found Witch bottle to these guys, I am too excited to here more about it.
I’d love to be an archeologist ever since I was little I have loved to dig for things and crystals coins etc
Me too! This museum is a must visit if ever you get the chance! It's inside the Oxford university museum and is my favourite place in the world! Since I was small child growing up in Oxfordshire, I have loved visiting this place!!
Thanks so much for this.
I desperately want to be an archeologist. I’m 27 and afraid I’m too late. Since you been at least a masters to really do the jobs I want to do.
It's never too late. Go for it. If that is what you want then I think doing a job you love even for 3 years is better than doing a job you hate for your lifetime.
With the bent or broken iron items. The Celts use to make offerings of swords, dress pins etc...and prior to offering they would bend / break the offering. Could this be the reason for the damaged items?
Maybe these ate items that belonged to the suspected "witch" that they were breaking.
I remember reading that bending or breaking the offered item took it out of commission in this world. Maybe that means it also allows the item to become effective in the otherworld, or the place between worlds.
Very interesting discussion, thank you.
My dad fished one out of the harbour it still had its handle on it and we knew it as a Ballantine jar.
They're Bellarmine jugs/ Bartmann jugs, which were common in the 16th-17th century
"Why were we taught to be afraid of witches and not the people who burned them at the stake, tortured and killed them?"
already been opened? around the start of 2020 by any chance?
Haha -yes they opened it in a lab in wuhan lol
🤣🤣🤣
Fascinating!
Thank you. This was a very interesting video. 👏😊
I'd be keen on examining some of the research they have that's lead them to their hypothesis on the purposes of these bottles. From personal generational knowledge, those are often made for protection from something or someone. Always loaded with sharps of various sorts and ideally the menstrual blood of the individual to be protected (the spell literally calls for bleeding into the jar under a certain lunar phase, gross) for maximum strength but other bodily fluids can be substituted but at cost of strength of effectiveness. Once completed the bottle is to be buried in the vicinity of the one being protected. If there are a number of bottles found in a region you'll probably find old evidence of a coven in the area or a solitary practioner acting as the local healer. Those found here and there with no concentration of sites suggests a solitary practioner that remained covert.
So fascinating, and so fun to see! x
Hey It’s Raksha
Anytime opening a closed vessel, I respectfully recommend the person closest to the action wear not only gloves, but a standard N95 mask. Not so visible as the powder and larger objects, even finer powder not visible during recovery my be released during the emptying process. Everthing from iron oxides to common toxic compounds to who knows, dandruff (!) and of course biologicals like nasty spores. Im not kidding about dandruff
Keep your gloves on , high probability of urine or menstrual blood in it .
There are all different types and kinds of witch bottles .
Copper is found as nuggets and chunks and can be cold hammered, the North American native people cold hammered copper. Iron however is created and made from rock in what was early on seen as a magical practice.
The Iron Age was 1200 b.c.. so you’re saying it was seen as magical even during the 17th century?
@@Ryan-ze9fz No. I'm saying that the folk lore that saw iron as magical started there.
When you don't know how to focus a camera... Tip for the person filming: You want to focus on the face, not on the index drawers!
Focusing on index card cabinets is easier than focusing on people; cabinets don't move.
@@denisenilsson1366 don't comment if you don't know what you're talking about.
@@denisenilsson1366 That’s a very good point. I need to try that out. I think you’re ahead of the curve.
@@InsertHandleHere968 it's called constructive feedback.
I need subtitles good lord
Who’s more expert than a witch at opening witch bottles😂
Which bottles are we talking about?
So urine, iron nails bent or not? Mirror what kind? Double sided mirror? Or normal mirror a piece of mirror or whole small mirror? Is urine alone enough? Do I have to put hair and nails as well? Asking for protecting a person and lifting the cursed that is cast, to bring back the curse to the curser the witch, thank you
All that will work. (Ive been practicing 30 years.) The main thing about it, is that you use Directed Will to focus your intent. The components should have symbolic meaning for you. (Sharp things make the sender uncomfortable, bent nails disperse negative energy, broken mirrors do both, a variety of different things give more "weight" to your defenses, urine hair or blood,, is used to direct the negative energy to the bottle like a decoy,, etc) Visualize the negative energy bouncing back to where it came. I would recommend not visualizing a specific source (person) because there is always the chance that it could actually be coming from someplace/person that's unexpected. You want to reflect the energy,, not attack someone.. Bury the jar at a nearby crossroads, a gate,, a driveway,, or at the 4 compass points around your property...... again it should have meaning for you. Pieces of mirrors facing outwards, placed in your windows will work as well. There are many ways to disperse negative energy. But if it's physical, if an actual person is harassing you, call the police and take a self-defence course. Also, pieces of hematite buried at the 4 compass points or in your window sills, will ground out negative energy. Like I said, many ways. One final thought, in my personal experience, EVERYTHING is energy.....and energy is energy. There is no black or white, only grey, intent and repercussions...... Everything vibrates higher, lower, it changes......change your energy vibration and "lower/negative" energy can't find you. Just my experience.. I answered because this one video popped up out of nowhere. I don't generally answer questions online, but something a out your comment......idk. I hope this helps.
@@Jadeserphant thank you
@@samantharamesh7572 Your welcome. I forgot to mention, after your bottle is finished and buried. Don’t wonder if you did it correctly, unless you did something that felt “bad/wrong” then it’s fine. Don’t wonder if it’s working. It is. NEVER question the magic. Doubt will allow weak spots or holes to form. You kill the energy by questioning it. Once completed and buried just ACCEPT that it is working. If you find yourself thinking about it, or if your still getting a bit of negative energy seeping through, remember, it most likely won’t be instantaneous, it takes a little time. Instead of questioning, reinforce it by using your original visualization and use Directed Will to send some energy to top off the energy of the bottle. There is power in repetition. There is no way to know how much energy will be needed to reverse the negative energy, but when you find yourself thinking about it, that’s usually the protection needing a boost. Think of it as a rechargeable battery. Lol. As it works, you will find yourself thinking about/recharging it less and less until all the negative attack is reversed and gone. No need to dig it up or dismantle it later. It will always guard you from attacks if you give it a boost every few months. I’ve had four at the compass points of my property for 15+ years. Still going. Lol
The first rule of witchcraft is to harm none. You must focus on positive, protective energy. If your goal is getting revenge on the person who placed the curse, then you may have bad consequences return to you. After all, wishing ill on someone, even a bad person, makes you just as bad as them. Be pure of heart and full of love, because all magic can come back to you. :)
@@InsertHandleHere968 It is oral tradition passed down for many many generations. There are no 'rules', but the wisdom of our ancestors tells us to be cautious. That everything we send out will return, and that you should never send out any energy unless it is something you would like to receive. Of course protection and self defense are fine. However, revenge attacks are building on the hate and negativity, not diffusing them and working towards peace and love. If you speak with any elders in the tradition, they will advise you that "harm none" is part of the Wiccan Rede. It is not a rule... it's a truth and a warning, advice and wisdom we don't take lightly.
Love the salt glaze on the bottles.
Fascinating
Now we use baby food jars or Mason jars.
Didn't know that witch bottles were to become so popular in those days.
That was fascinating
Damn lets get on with it. I'm about to tern it.
@14:35 “holy sh*t!? You’re going to burn the bottle to widen the mouth? Ohhh you brits!” The effing flashlight.
What simpletons believe that opening a bottle owned by a 17th century edge lord would unleash hell lol
Depends on which bottle they open?
Meeeeeeee!!!!!! I’m worried
@@chrisdotson1524 which bottle...heh.
You never know what hazards might be in old sealed containers. There’s an imperial tomb in China that archaeologists still won’t open bc records suggest it contains a moat of liquid Mercury, and the pent up fumes could cause respiratory or neurological harm or even death. If you were listening, you noticed they said these bottles sometimes contain Mercury. And that’s just one harmful substance.
@@thepeacefish Mercury is a poison not hell isn't it I'm not saying don't wear PVP opening one up just don't expect to be hell or a geene to pop out of it
If there's sometimes mercury in them, I wish everyone would wear more protection while opening these.
I wondered if there were some witches bottles in wiltshire? in some of the villages long ago? i enjoyed this history peek into witches bottles and the belief around it.
How u know the age of these bottles? Like 17 , 18 , 19 century?
Pottery is traceable by era and matetials. Older glass as well.
As @Camille Dvorak said, pottery can be dated, but also where they are found and what contents they have can be dated as well.
Should the iron nails have to be bent or not before putting inside the jar? to counter back, To bring back the curse to the witch, and how many nails to use and What kind of specific jar to be used? Thank you
Nice click bait. It’s so not opening it live.....shame on u
Warren has any correlation with ed and Lorraine warren!?
The words You Fucked Up came to mind
Very interesting 👌
I'm surprised there aren't more bottles with bits of the bible in them. I can see the logic in the mindset of the cunning man/woman deciding it should be added. It could be seen as using the word of god for defense. Particular verses being cut up could be due to the correlation between that verse and a type of bewitchment.
This is a fair point but I think this is a modern idea - we may be able to get a spare bible at any dollar store, but we have to remember we’re talking about the 17th century. Although the printing press had been invented, printed books were still very expensive and most rural people (such as in the areas where these bottles were found) would have been illiterate. So there are several reasons they may not have had a bible of their own in the house, and if they did it’s very unlikely that they would have considered tearing something valuable and sacred into pieces. That’s if they were even able to read which passages would have been relevant.
Truly interesting. It seems that was a form of recycling bottles for some kind of amulets. They are time capsules! Or Vodoo objects :)
Which are witch?
Regarding the bending or destruction of items, an animistic perspective might provide a theory to help us understand why this was practiced. In an animistic perspective everything has a spirit, even inanimate objects were thought to be alive so to speak. Breaking, destroying or otherwise killing it was to send its' spirit to the spirit world.
Where I am from, the First Nations peoples had a burial practice of breaking items such as bows, arrows, pottery etc. and placing them in the grave with the deceased. This served two functions, but primarily it was to release the spirit of the item so that it might travel to the spirit world with the person to the "the land of the dead" to be used the same as it would have been in the world of the living.
I find it very frustrating the inability of archeologists (and other scientific disciplines) to broaden their understanding of material culture beyond the material they directly deal with. The deeper understanding of material culture is oft found within and associated with the songs, stories, folklore, and heaven forbid (pun intended) the religious/ritual and spiritual practices/beliefs of a culture.
Don't need no damn "witch bottle" to unleash evil.... it's already here.!!!
Definitely still practicing, I have multiple witch bottles buried outside right now, but I don’t recommend it because I’ve been possessed from it before
How would someone have known the cunning folk were not simply witches masquerading as a helpful neighbor?
These bottles were opened in Dec. 2019.... ahaha jk!!!
Well she turned me into a NEWT!.......I got better.
Too much needless palaver! All the information could have been conveyed in 10 minutes.
I know - imagine expecting people to enjoy listening to experts about something in their chosen field. You'd almost think that not every person is as staggeringly shallow as you are.
@@jonnylumberjack6223 I lament you missed my point. I'm most happy to listen to an expert convey information. On the other hand, it's a terrible death to be talked to death. The experts in this video repeat the same information over and over. I understood what they said the first time! Again, this video ought to have been about 10 minutes long.
@@pepperco100 *proceeds to keep talking and conveying no information at all*
Everyone so far apart, sign o the times. Sign o the times.
Someone’s tooth brush looks like lol
What a load of bottles 🍼 we now use jam jars for bits and pieces geeks on steroids
Coffin nails hair personal item urin blood etc.looks like a piece of cinnamon stick dirt is one of the things called for in some rituals
Welp time for covid part 2 electric boogaloo
I come from a long long line of different......almost my whole family are casters....cunning folk...witches of white......when I was 27-28 was at a low point in my life and therefore susceptible , open, and unguarded and something hit my body so hard one night when I was in conversation with my wife.....knocked my essence and my soul completely out of my body.....when my soul and essence returned directly to the vessel of my body I was in a spiritual war with something that called itself 13 and my wife called my mother and this thing inside me and my mother whom I now know as a very powerful force, (we are welsh, Celtic, basque , Scottish descent) had a conversation in a tongue that I didn’t know but understood completely......my mother had my wife get a glass bottle..putt safety pins in it, pee in it , one drop of blood and spit........and she said one word......one word with 13 letters in a language so ancient it sounded almost animal instead of human..........when it was said out loud, the thing that was in me vacated instantly and went into that glass bottle.....which my mom had me cap quickly, i lit a candle and drip’d the wax over the bottle wrapped it with a binding cord 1n2....3n2...5n4...9n4.. 13n2.........15 times take it outside call to the north n south east n West and ask for permission to disturb the earth by the breaking of dawns light and bury that bottle at a certain depth.......some of those “witch jars or bottles” should prolly be left alone for the greater good of good!!!
Used for protection or curse etc
Ah yes that’s smart. Open a witch bottle likely of some religious or magical significance to someone and just dump all the stuff out 🙄
It was deposited as an apotropaic against witchcraft not a curse.
That's what I'm saying. Zero respect.
The bottle was already open.
that's how we learn. how is it not smart to want to examine the contents? how is seeking knowledge not "smart"?
@@raymondhoule6108 who or what are they disrespecting? and why does that person or thing automatically demand respect?
You know what would be funny if that was like the 17th-century version of a junk drawer or jewlery box.
Maybe they exploded because of the power of the 1st spell placed by the witch!
Isn't that a Bartmann bottle❓
That's exactly what I was thinking! Never heard them called witch bottles. The mudlarks find the faces on the Thames all the time.
I think how it was used is what makes it a witch bottle, could be wrong. Someone found an amazing face in one of Si Finds videos recently :)
The speakers in the video state that they are Bartmann bottles.
Ok, so, the way a witch bottle is used, is on the same pretense as a voodoo doll?? Interesting....
Is there any evidence of the use of blood as a power substance?
No evidence, just belief. As a modern witch, blood is still used in spells to make more "powerful".
They found urine.
At least you didnt try to drink it.
The earthen ware virgin, AOS. Zos kia cultus
If they knew the real truth about a witch bottle