Man unearths 'witch bottle' with hair and teeth inside - but is urged to 'put it back'

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Shane Mears has a rather unique passion - he loves digging up antique relics from the ground. The 52-year-old, who works as a bartender in New Orleans, spends his free time exploring the areas where demolished homes once stood, in the hopes of finding something interesting.

And recently, he found just that. In a post on Facebook last month, Mears claimed he'd dug up a 'witch bottle' from the mud at Algiers Point, on the Mississippi River’s West Bank.

The bizarre item contained a tooth, strands of human hair, a pincher beetle and possibly some urine. He explained: "Located in an area where a home existed in the mid-1800's (and the bottle dating from that time period, as well), such an object may have been used as a protection spell for the