Monday, February 18, 2008

which bottles? witch bottles!


(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:

Anonymous said...

I bet you could make more if you offered to customers to put a custom face on them from a pic they supply heheeh

Unknown said...

Brilliant! Now, let's see --- Hmmmm.

Anonymous said...

we might start with Gordo, can you find some hair for us Grego?

Anonymous said...

WOW... the pic finally worked! love the pottles!

hair??

Anonymous said...

oh right.. that witch thing.. ;)

Anonymous said...

who knew us protestants had such a sense of humor?

EH

Gordo said...

HEY! Behave yourself, you.

Anonymous said...

dude, your witch bottles are awesome!

Anonymous said...

(oops, better take that spell off Denis...)