Noted by BigPulpit, this article reveals an entirely unfamiliar religious practice.
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It’s suspected the bottles found along Texas originated in the Caribbean and South America, according to Jace Tunnell of the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies.
Witch bottles, also known as spell bottles, are intended to “draw in and trap harmful intentions directed at their owners,” Tunnell says.
Hundreds of examples have been found buried or hidden in walls in the United Kingdom, according to a report by the McGill University Office for Science and Society.
Back in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries there was a powerful belief in witches and their ability to cause illness by casting a spell. But the evil spells could be fended off by trapping them in a witch bottle, which if properly prepared could actually reflect the spell itself while also tormenting the witch leaving the witch with no option but to remove the spell, allowing the victim to recover.
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Helmholtz resonators! Mount a bottle in the wall, trap the unwanted spell or sound in a standing wave. Let it fade inside the bottle.
The practice was forgotten in Britain but remains active in the southern half of the world where God lives now.
Hmm… Snowbird God is a pretty good metaphor. Tired of fighting Yankee fuckheads, he retreated to Dixie and Africa and Brazil where people are still in contact with each other and in contact with reality.
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