M0019797: English charms and amulets used against witchcraft

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Charms and amulets used against witchcraft, England.

Photograph of five charms and amulets used against witchcraft: holed stones from Devon and Nottingham; belemnite from Dorset; vervain root from Norfolk; and a rowan tree cross bound with red wool, English. The holed stones were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at unknown points and accessioned in 1936 (accession numbers R13357/1936 and R15797/1936). The belemnite and vervain root were acquired by the Museum as part of the Lovett Collection and accessioned in 1936 (accession numbers R15948/1936 and R15754/1936). There are no particularls about the rowan tree cross

February 1964

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for four of the items: R13357/1936, R13357/1936, R15948/1936 and R13357/1936

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.

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