Holed stone threaded on string either for suspension inside a door to avert sickness from Holy Island
- Made:
- 1880-1916
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Holed stone threaded on string either for suspension inside a door to avert sickness from Holy Island, or hung up in cottage as charm against witches, Yorkshire, however English, 1880-1916
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A665288
- Materials:
- stone and sling, string
- type:
- stone
- credit:
- Lovett collection
