Bent, Holed & Folded: Coin Talismans for Protection against Misfortune & Witchcraft in Colonial Jamestown

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BENT, HOLED, & FOLDED presents new information about how the colonists at Jamestown mutilated and shaped coins to fashion talismans to protect against misfortune and witchcraft. Coin bending was a medieval tradition driven by fear. And fear is a potent call to action. Witches were thought to be rampant in England during the early seventeenth century, and the North American wilderness offered no reprieve, as death was everywhere. Fresh archaeological evidence has shown just how perilous the situation was. Something had to be done.