I am appealing to the collective knowledge of the museum-l list for
assistance in locating objects similar to one in the collections of the
Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford. We have a small silvered-glass bottle,
probably 19thC, capped with wax, and said to contain a witch. It was
collected in Sussex around 1910 and PRM acquired it in 1929. Apparently
many European folk tales mention "bottle imps" (perhaps a borrowing from
Eastern tales of genies in various containers?); does anyone know of any
other such artefacts? One of our graduate students would like to focus on
this for her thesis.

With sincere thanks,
Laura Peers

Laura Peers
Curator and Lecturer
Pitt Rivers Museum
University of Oxford
64 Banbury Road
Oxford, UK OX2 6PN

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