Excavated in 2004 from a 17th-century privy under Rochester Independent College, the bottle had been forgotten until Crozier’s discovery. “Someone joked it might be a witch bottle,” she says.

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(CN) — A "virtual autopsy" has put a name to a 17th-century mummified child from an aristocratic Austrian family crypt. New research published in Frontiers of Medicine on Tuesday explains how a german ...

In 17th-century Europe, the dead were a constant threat to rise again and bedevil the living. Now archaeologists have found the remains of a suspected child revenant.