Spellbound in Oxford by the prestige of the Ashmolean museum

Better known for exhibitions on art, the museum has opened its doors to the darkness of magic

Visitors may wish to cross their fingers for luck before walking under a ladder into Spellbound, a new exhibition on the history of magic, at the Ashmolean museum in Oxford, to encounter a very dead cat, a unicorn’s horn, a medium’s ectoplasm and padlocks cut from the Centenary Bridge in Leeds when their weight foretold not everlasting love but the imminent collapse of the whole structure.

The first object in the exhibition is a silver bottle that, if opened, will unleash dire but unspecified consequences.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2Podt2W