witch boxes In Britain, charms placed in a house to

witch boxes In Britain, charms placed in a house to
protect the occupants from witch’s spells and to prevent
witches from entering. Witch boxes were popular in the
16th and 17th centuries. They usually were a small
wooden box with a glass front, filled with herbs, bits of
rowan, pieces of human bone and odds and ends, over
which a magic spell of protection had been cast. The
boxes often were sold by witch-hunters who went from
town to town whipping up hysteria about witches.