Witches of Cornwall (Archaeology Magazine)

Tis the season for this particular season. The finds in the article below are interesting — especially since the finds date to as late as the 1950s.

Macabre evidence of age-old spells surfaces in an archaeologist’s front yard. Witchcraft, the rituals of a number of pagan belief systems, was thought to offer control of the world through rites and incantations. Carbon dating places evidence from the 1600s through the 1950s.

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