Some people turn eggshells into exquisite works of art, but did you know that eggshells were once at the heart of a superstition concerning witchcraft?
“It was once held as superstition that if you did not crush the ends of an egg after eating it, a witch would gather the shells and use them to craft a boat that she could use to sail out to sea to raise storms. This is a very ancient superstition which seems to originate in the 1580s. If you shattered the end of the shell, it would create enough holes to make it useless as a boat. We won’t even go into the logic of how a full-sized human might be able to stand in an egg shell – that was obviously not on the minds of our superstitious forebears.”
Eggs by Fullstop Books
