Witch Ball

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True witch balls were a hollow ball of swirled parti-colored glass, two to seven inches (or more) in diameter. Originated in England and was used by superstitious glassmakers to ward off the evil eye, by hanging in a cottages window. The eighteenth century tradition developed into one of hanging many on a tree or candletrows at Christmas or Twelfth night.

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