M0000684: A glass ball amulet used as protection from against witches

Previous title, replaced May 2020: A glass ball amulet used as protection from against witches

Photograph of a glass ball amulet filled with tangled threads and hung in houses in the Home Countries, east of England and Sicliy for the frustration of witches. The item was previously part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum but is not held by Wellcome Collection.

01 January 1930

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.