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Archaeologists unearth 17th century bottle used to scare off witches - Telegraph
"The witch bottle was discovered in a pit beneath a back room on the site of the Turk's Head Inn at Tipping Street car park in Stafford. The vessel is a mid to late 17th-century Bellarmine jug which would have been filled with the likes of nail clippings, hair, bellybutton fluff, pins and iron nails. The period was full of superstition and they were buried near or under buildings to ward off witches or evil...