(bottles by Gary Rith)
I was writing about witch bottles or Bellarmines the other day, and you KNOW I have to make some. The idea for these bottles started with putting the scowling image of Cardinal Bellarmine, a famous inquisitor of non-Catholics in the 1500s, onto bottles as something of a joke. These bottles were very common in Protestant Europe 300 some years ago, and people also used them a little like voodoo dolls, as repositories for an enemy's hair or something so you could try a spell.......
9 comments:
I bet you could make more if you offered to customers to put a custom face on them from a pic they supply heheeh
Brilliant! Now, let's see --- Hmmmm.
we might start with Gordo, can you find some hair for us Grego?
WOW... the pic finally worked! love the pottles!
hair??
oh right.. that witch thing.. ;)
who knew us protestants had such a sense of humor?
EH
HEY! Behave yourself, you.
dude, your witch bottles are awesome!
(oops, better take that spell off Denis...)
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