Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1902 — A RELIC OF WITCHCRAFT. [ARTICLE]

A RELIC OF WITCHCRAFT.

A curious discovery has been made at Lynn, in Lincolnshire. In an old house a heart shaped piece of cloth, pierced with needles and Eins, has been found in a “grayeard” bottle. This is undoubtedly a relic of witchcraft. According to the editorial secretary of the British Arclueological association, the memento was designed for some one’s harm. “It is part of the paraphernalia of witchcraft. The most interesting thing about this discovery is that it should have occurred at Lynn—i. e., in a part of the world where the sujierstitions belonging to magic and witchcraft might be supposed to have long disappeared. The house is said to be old, and the fact that the cloth was contained in a ‘graybeard’ or ‘bellarmine’ bottle would seem to show that the time of its deposit belongs most probably to the sixteenth or early seventeenth century, at which period, of course, a belief, in witchcraft was universal.” St. James Gazette.