M0019799: Protection against witchcraft: two glass bottles, one containing feathers and coloured leaves, the other contining a white substance and rags.

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Protection against witches. Glass so-called, herb bottles, one containing feathers, coloured leaves etc. the other contining a white substance and rags.

Photograph of two glass bottles which would protect against witchcraft. The one containing feathers and leaves was presented to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1928 and accessioned in 1940 (R1558/1940). The other was purchased by the Museum in 1932 and given accession number A124308

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: R1558/1940 and A124308

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.