The witch bottle tradition came to the US and was still in play in the mid-19th century, during the Civil War. Fast forward to 2016, when the William & Mary Center for Archaeological Research took ...

A glass vial stopped with a cork during the Civil War has been opened ... "You can expect no help from this side of the river." The bottle, less than 2in in length, had sat undisturbed in the ...

“We thought it was unusual, but weren’t sure what it was.” The bottle was recovered as part of an archaeological dig at the Civil War-era site of Redoubt 9, which today is more commonly known as exits ...

A glass bottle stocked with old, rusted nails dating back to the Civil War has been discovered in Virginia. Unlike other glass bottles, this one may have been used to “ward off spirits ...

Archaeologists uncovered the so-called witch bottle during a dig organized by the Virginia Department of Transportation at Redoubt 9, a Civil War-era site that sits in the median between exits 238 ...

A 'WITCH bottle' used to ward off spirits has been discovered in a Civil War fort site near Williamsburg, Virginia. The glass vile, made in Pennsylvania, contained rusty nails and was found buried ...

Archaeologists have recovered what they believe could be a 'witch bottle' - a glass vessel used to trap evil spirits - from a Civil War fort site near Williamsburg, Virginia. A team from the ...

The bottle was discovered as part of an archaeological dig at Redoubt 9, a Civil-War era-site, now known as exits 238 to 242 on Interstate-64 in York County. “It was this glass bottle full of ...