Episode 156: Bottled Up (ad-free) (Patreon)

Humans are very good at making assumptions. But if we look a little deeper, our preconceived ideas about some of the most common bits of folklore won’t just change—they’ll transform into something terrifying.

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Further Reading

1. “Antiques Roadshow expert drinks urine after mistaking it for 150-year-old port,” Mirror, December 2019, https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/antiques-roadshow-expert-tastes-150-21183529.
2. Alan W. Smith, “In Memoriam: Eric Maple, 1916–1944,” Folklore 106 (1995), p. 87.
3. Peter C. Brown, Essex Witches (Stroud, UK: The History Press 2014).
4. Eric Maple, “The Witches of Canewdon,” Folklore 71.4 (Dec 1960), pp. 241–250.
5. Michael Howard, Modern Wicca: A History from Gerald Gardner to the Present (Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2009).
6. Matthew Hopkins, The Discovery of Witches (London: R. Royston 1647).
7. Robert Ellison, “England’s Royleigh Forgotten Country Town of Rich Legends,” The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC), 20 May 1934, p. 2.
8. Malcolm Gaskill, Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005).
9. Eric Maple, “Witchcraft and Magic in the Rochford Hundred,” Folklore 76.3 (Autumn 1965).
10. Ronald Hutton, “Writing the History of Witchcraft: A Personal View,” The Pomegranate 12.2 (2010), pp. 238–262, https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/POM/article/view/10684.
11. James Sharpe, Witchcraft in Early Modern England (Taylor & Francis, 2014).
12. Emma Wilby, “The Witch’s Familiar and the Fairy in Early Modern England and Scotland,” Folklore 111.2 (October 2000), pp. 283–305.
13. Sylvia Kent, Folklore of Essex (Stroud, UK: The History Press 2005).
14. Nigel Pennick, Witchcraft and Secret Societies of Rural England: The Magic of Toadmen, Plough Witches, Mummers, and Bonesmen (Rochester, VT: Destiny Books 2019).
15. Lugh, Old George Pickingill and the Roots of Modern Witchcraft (Taray Publications 1984).
16. Ronald Hutton, The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press 2019).
17. Caroline Tully, “Interview with Professor Ronald Hutton of the University of Bristol, United Kingdom,” Necropolis Now, May 2011, necropolisnow.blogspot.com/2011/05/interview-with-professor-ronald-hutton.html.
18. Ralph Merrifield, “Witch Bottles and Magical Jugs,” Folklore 66.1 (March 1955), pp. 195–207.
19. M. J. Becker, “An American Witch Bottle,” Archaeology 33.2 (March/April 1980), pp. 18–23.
20. James W. Baker, “White Witches: Historic Fact and Romantic Fantasy,” Magical Religion and Modern Witchcraft edited by James R. Lewis (Albany, NY: SUNY Press 1996).
21. Eric Maple, “Cunning Murrell: A Study of a Nineteenth-Century Cunning Man in Hadleigh, Essex,” Folklore 71.1 (March 1960), pp. 37–43.
22. “An American Witch Bottle,” Archaeology, 2009, https://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/halloween/witch_bottle.html.