With Halloween just a few days away, today’s Object of the Week features an item with links to the supernatural. ON display at Preston Park Museum is a curious and rather elegant green glass bottle.

The bottle came to her from an old lady in a Sussex village, who stated: "They do say there is a witch in it, and if you let 'un out there'll be a peck o' trouble." It remains firmly sealed ...

The witch bottle would have been used by someone who believed they had been cursed. A 17th Century bottle discovered at a school 17 years ago has been identified as a rare anti-witchcraft device.