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Witches, Wool and War: Life in Kirklees during the Great Fire of London
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Witch Ball

A witch ball. Hollow glass sphere with a hole in it for a cork.

Witch balls were hung in cottage windows in 17th- and 18th-century England to ward off evil spirits, witches, evil spells, and ill fortune.

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