Theory:

mothfurry:

therealkyebarnfield:

mothfurry:

therealkyebarnfield:

thepeacockangel:

So you know how Wiccans popularized that belief that if you curse someone it’ll bounce back on you?

Well witch bottles are such absurdly common archeological finds in England that it could be that curses don’t *naturally* bounce back on the caster, so much as England is fucking full of reflector systems and so you can’t throw a hex there without hitting one.

you realise the cunning folk of england weren’t ‘wiccans’ they were a systematically persecuted group of rural folk healers and veterinarians who had literally nothing to do with neopaganism which was invented by some old male civil servant in 1954

I think the joke here is that when that dude invented Wicca this affected the rules he came up with
but now that u say that I’m not 100% confident

wicca is 100 bs 

this kid doesnt even know that witch bottles don’t reflect curses they just absorb the magic until they explode one day, my nan used to make them she was cunning as anything. 

she used to sell them to builders to put in the walls once upon a time ago but shes dead now.

it’s tagged as humor so I think they were joking and yeah it is bs.
your nan sounds amazing

It was a joke and honestly the cunning folk of England weren’t the ones prosecuted during the witch trials at least as far as I can find, nor did I call them Wiccans. I’m joking about the fact that Wicca (which is utter nonsense and caused the loss of innumerable folk traditions) originated in England and the tradition as to what they do varies at least a bit as my husband’s family tradition is that they reflect shit… so y’ know