Bent, Holed & Folded: Coin Talismans for Safety in opposition to Misfortune & Witchcraft in Colonial Jamestown

BENT, HOLED, & FOLDED presents new details about how the colonists at Jamestown mutilated and formed cash to vogue talismans to guard in opposition to misfortune and witchcraft. Coin bending was a medieval custom pushed by worry. And worry is a potent name to motion. Witches had been regarded as rampant in England through the early seventeenth century, and the North American wilderness supplied no reprieve, as loss of life was in all places. Contemporary archaeological proof has proven simply how perilous the state of affairs was. One thing needed to be executed.