In August 1881, a Madeley man found a shred of paper, sealed with red wax, in his kitchen chimney. It contained the following words

'I charge all witches and ghosts to depart from this house, in the name of great Jehovah and Alpha and Omega'
I wonder if it worked?

#folklore #Shropshire #apotropaic

Not now, plague of atomic rats.

Give @kennethhite.bsky.social a break. Normally when he returns a moai to the timeline he does better than a dry lake bed. But this was literally right before Gen Con.