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Museum Number: 519
Object Name: Curse
Physical Description: Red leather sling-back shoe, filled with wax containing the body of a bird (sparrow).
Museum Classification: Curses
Size: 270mm
Information: Text by Cecil Williamson: 'Jealousy - oh what things are done in thy name. Sexy red shoe, a poor wee sparrow done to death and frozen into a wax tomb of foot shoe space. Hate and jealousy are both bad things. This is a Plymouth-based fabrication worked by the Union Street charmer, Black Doris.'
Mentioned in Doreen Valiente's description of the exhibits at Cecil Williamson's 'House of Spells' at Polperro (Transcripts from Doreen Valiente's Diaries 1959-1966, in the museum library (133.43 VAL), pp.29-34).
Resource Type: Object
Material made from: Leather, wax, animal
Copyright Ownership: Copyright to TREETRUNK Ltd.
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