M0019798: Two bottles containing threads and mounted with silver meant to prevent ills caused by the Evil Eye and witchcraft, Sicily

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Prevention of ills caused by the Evil Eye or Witchcraft. Bottles containing threads and mounted with silver. Sicily.

Photograph of two bottles which would prevent ills caused by the Evil Eye and witchcraft. They were purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1929 and accessioned in 1936 (accession numbers R14596/1936 and R14597/1936)

February 1964

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides entries for the items: R14596/1936 and R14597/1936

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.