No I am sorry I haven't -- but I would be curious to hear about references for iron used to unwitch in the 16th and 17th centuries, so if you have those texts I'd appreciate you passing them on. I haven't come across them in the my own corpus.
cheers,
Kirsten
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Kirsten C. Uszkalo
- Project Lead | Witches in Early Modern England Project | http://witching.org
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On 2011-02-21, at 8:25 PM, Manning, Mary C wrote:
> Greetings all,
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> Has anyone heard of iron door or window hardware serving as an apotropaic device against witchcraft? I'm familiar with other iron objects such as horseshoes and nails being used around doorways and windows to prevent witches from entering a home, but I was curious if anyone had come across a citation for actual hardware (latches, locks, knobs, hinges, etc.) serving a similar purpose. I'm particularly looking for citations that refer to the late eighteenth or nineteenth century, but any help you can give would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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> Chris Manning, Graduate Student
> Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
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