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To: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.religion.orisha,alt.lucky.w,alt.magick.folk,alt.pagan,alt.magick From: catherine yronwodeSubject: Re: Witch Bottles: Hoodoo and British Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 03:20:23 GMT Vasa wrote: > > cat yronwode wrote: > > The fact that the burying of witch bottles has fallen into disuse > > in Britain... Hi Cat, > > I'm sorry, but this statement is not true, many people > still bury witch bottles. It's more the "Traditional" folk that use > them. But the practice is far from extinct. Thought you'd like to > know. Hi -- THANK YOU! I do not live in Britain, so i was taking the archaeologist's word that they are not used there now. I sent my comments about African-American hoodoo witch bottles to him and he emailed me, by the way, and said that the reporter quoted him wrong and that the latest ones he knew of were mid-20th century, not mid-19th, as noted in the Guardian newspaper. But he firmly believes they are not used today in Britain as protection agaisnt witches. I ran into a similar situation with an American archaeologist who had discovered a trove of hoodoo artifacts in Maryland dating from the 1700s to late 19th century. He truly did not know that anyone still uses this stuff -- with the same ingredients -- today, and when i sent him a batch of items i manufacture and sell, he was stunned. He really thought it was all "dead history." The British witch bottle expert is named Brian Hoggard. If you have information to share with him about witch bottles in Britain (or dead cats or horse skulls or old shoes interred in the walls of buildings), please email him or visit his web site. He is actively collecting information from Great Britain. He can be reached at mailto:brian@folkmagic.co.uk and his web site is http://www.folkmagic.co.uk Cordially, cat yronwode Hoodoo in Theory and Practice -- http://www.luckymojo.com/hoodoo.html Lucky W Amulet Archive --------- http://www.luckymojo.com/luckyw.html No personal e-mail, please; just catch me in usenet; i read it daily. Lucky Mojo Curio Co. http://www.luckymojo.com/luckymojocatalogue.html Send e-mail with your street address to catalogue@luckymojo.com and receive our free 32 page catalogue of hoodoo supplies and amulets
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