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Heather 馃懟
Heather 馃懟
@Akki@toot.lgbt  路  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@Mer @TheBreadmonkey From the Horniman Museum and Gardens, Forest HIll, London, UK, a display of charms from their collection. They vary so much but show how much day-to-day superstition used to play in lives all over. And they're such simple objects, given power by belief.

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A large display in a museum showing charms and protection objects collected from all over England. There is a horseshoe, a ring of hag stones (stones with naturally occurring hole in the middle of them) but also simple pieces of wood or bone.
A large display in a museum showing charms and protection objects collected from all over England. There is a horseshoe, a ring of hag stones (stones with naturally occurring hole in the middle of them) but also simple pieces of wood or bone.
A large display in a museum showing charms and protection objects collected from all over England. There is a horseshoe, a ring of hag stones (stones with naturally occurring hole in the middle of them) but also simple pieces of wood or bone.
A closer up view of the middle of the display. It shows a hyoid bone from a sheep "carried by a seaman in the North Sea. Yorkshire."  "a spider shell carried for wealth, Lanc." "Stone carried by a farmhand to protect him from a reputed witch (Ann Izzard of St Neots, Died about 1855) Eynesbury, Hunts"
A closer up view of the middle of the display. It shows a hyoid bone from a sheep "carried by a seaman in the North Sea. Yorkshire." "a spider shell carried for wealth, Lanc." "Stone carried by a farmhand to protect him from a reputed witch (Ann Izzard of St Neots, Died about 1855) Eynesbury, Hunts"
A closer up view of the middle of the display. It shows a hyoid bone from a sheep "carried by a seaman in the North Sea. Yorkshire." "a spider shell carried for wealth, Lanc." "Stone carried by a farmhand to protect him from a reputed witch (Ann Izzard of St Neots, Died about 1855) Eynesbury, Hunts"
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