CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Researchers and beachcombers are finding “witch bottles” along the Texas Gulf Coast. The bottles are sealed and clearly filled with an assortment of items suggesting their intentions – and to the eyes of Witches, at least, they are clearly the result of some kind of magickal practice.
On November 17, a researcher at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies encountered such a bottle and posted it on Facebook. “Witch bottle!” they wrote. “We find these every once in a while.”
“Folks in certain cultures around the world put vegetation or other objects in a bottle,” they continued. “They are counter magical devices whose purpose is to draw in and trap harmful intentions directed at their owners.”
Source: https://wildhunt.org/2023/11/witch-bottles-wash-ashore-in-texas.html