But a number of especially strange objects ... “witch bottles.” People once used these in hopes of breaking dark spells — and experts suggest leaving them alone. “I’ve found around ...

(WCVB) - A message in a bottle written by a Massachusetts student more than two decades ago was recently found in France ... “Ben” Lyons as part of a science project about ocean currents ...

A Scottish fisherman has found ... 1,890 bottles released on June 10, 1914, and the 315th to be entered into Captain Brown's log, which is still kept and updated by Marine Scotland Science ...

The witch bottles were usually filled with fingernails, hair and even urine. The relic was found during a project ... thought that secreting such personal objects would offer protection from ...

THIS OBJECT IS PART OF THE PROJECT 'A HISTORY OF ... beloved of witches and sages. This little bottle of mercury, with its ring of small shells, was used by a wise woman living in Penzance in ...