# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Witch Bottles: Decoys, Spirit Traps or Counter- Witchcraft Measure?
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 07 Nov, 2025 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: The witch bottle is one of the most immediately recognizable charm among the repertoire of 'magical' objects  deliberately concealed within ancient buildings. Their squat, anthropomorphic form, accentuated by their fearsome bearded face (or mask) gives the bulbous salt-glazed jug an almost human appearance.

Witch bottles are often found buried in the inverted position either under the hearth or under the principal threshold of 16th and 17th century buildings.  Their contents can comprise human urine and nail cuttings – often combined with bent pins and nails – which has been interpreted as the result of a non-Christian, even heretical ‘ritual’ act.

Their association with the ritual protection of the house and its occupants is clear. But was the intent of their makers that they functioned as a decoy (to divert evil influences), to act as a spirit trap or to work as a counter-witchcraft measure, designed to fend off the possibility of psychic attack or bewitchment?

This illustrated talk will act as both an introduction to the current understanding of their uses as well as outlining a number of different ways in which they were deployed over time….many of the examples illustrated in the talk are culled from the county of Kent.

Photo of lovely bellarmines (c) Spellbound Exhibition
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/sheerness/witch-bottles-decoys-spirit-traps-or-counter-witchcraft-measure/200029149426048
- **Event Categories**: exhibitions
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 17

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.sheppeylittletheatre.co.uk/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=sheerness-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Sheerness
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Sheppey Little Theatre
- **lat**: 51.4398737964
- **long**: 0.767531846286
- **full address**: Sheppey Little Theatre, 40 Meyrick Road, Sheerness, ME12 2NX, United Kingdom

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Ritual Protection Marks & Ritual Practices (https://allevents.in/org/ritual-protection-marks-and-ritual-practices/27031160)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 07 Nov, 2025 at 07:30 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sheppey Little Theatre, 40 Meyrick Road, Sheerness, ME12 2NX, United Kingdom
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Ritual Protection Marks & Ritual Practices
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** exhibitions
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Witch Bottles: Decoys, Spirit Traps or Counter- Witchcraft Measure? ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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