#witch marks

[bad-moodboard]

Witch Marks in a Saxon Tithe barn, Bradford-on-Avon (Historic England)

[sorotrax]

Witch Marks

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[graveyarddandelion]

idk just came across this on pinterest

[kisstheviolet]

Apotropaic Marks in Norwich Cathedral (source: @norfolkfolkloresociety on instagram)

[shakespearenews]

Witch Markings & Magic in Shakespeare's birthplace

Over the last 40 years there has been an increasing recognition of the many marks found on historic buildings which preserve a record of the beliefs of our ancestors which are not well recorded elsewhere.

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust properties are no exception. We discovered such marks in Shakespeare’s Birthplace some time ago, and last year at Nash’s House, former home of Shakespeare’s granddaughter Elizabeth and now the exhibition centre for Shakespeare’s New Place...

...The classic mark is the daisy wheel, the six petal ‘flower’ that can be drawn with a pair of compasses. At the top of the staircase leading to the cellar of the Birthplace there is a pair of daisy wheels. This was where beer was stored so there was an obvious desire to make sure that nothing would interfere with the vital commodity. They were probably added in the time that the building was leased by William Shakespeare to a publican, just after 1600.

[archaeologicalnews]

Witch-repellent graffiti discovered in ruins of medieval UK church

Learning no lessons from horror films of yore, Britain has plans for a high-speed rail project that will lay tracks over the ruins of a medieval church. And, apparently, the project has run into some trouble with witches and dark spirits.

According to archaeologists working at Stoke Mandeville, a village that lies in the path of the proposed railway, an early excavation of the site's 700-year-old church revealed stone beams etched with strange circular patterns known as "witch marks."

These markings, which look like the spokes of a wheel with a hole drilled into the center, were created to "ward off evil spirits by entrapping them in an endless line or maze," project officials wrote in a statement.

Michael Court, lead archaeologist at HS2 Ltd (the company behind the rail project) said the unusual markings offer a "fascinating insight into the past" at a site that has long been lost to history. Read more.

[queeneclectichereditarywitch]

Special Witch Birthmarks and Moles

During the Witch Trials in Europe and Colonial America, accused witches were searched for “witch marks” which were birthmarks or extra nipples. These witch marks were where the witches suckled their familiar spirits, according to the witch hunters.

[fallbabylon]

Possible Witch Marks- Guildford Castle- Surrey