All Day
Ongoing

Exhibition: Safeguards Against Witchcraft

The Museum of Cambridge 2-3 Castle Street, Cambridge

For centuries, builders and homeowners secreted spiritual middens, such as shoes, bones and witch bottles, in the walls, fireplaces and under the floors in order to protect their property, their kin and themselves from the forces of witchcraft. Using  some rarely displayed objects from our own collection, we are exploring the customs and traditions that guarded Cambridgeshire homes against evil intent.