This is a photo of a Cursing Pot found in Holyhead in 1871. (pic 1) The pot is called a Pipkin and the piece of slate is inscribed with the words NANNY ROBERTS, you can also see pins in the picture. If you wanted to curse someone you’d take a live frog, stick some pins in it, place it in the Pipkin and having scratched the name of your intended victim on a piece of slate you would bury it somewhere, the curse was said to last until the Pipkin was found. Some even burnt the frog as a sign the curse could never be broken.
This stone was found in (Eilian's Well) Llaneilian (pic 2) also believed to be a cursing stone. In this example a wax effigy is nailed to a piece of stone with a lattice pattern scratched round the sides and RF written in the middle, RF being the initials of the person to be cursed. This Cursing Stone was found in a Well. Some Wells were said to have healing powers others were said to be Cursing Wells. How handy would that be, there you are on your way to work someones peeved you, simple... scratch their name on a piece of slate and hurl it down the Cursing Well. Brilliant, bring them back I say.
Note to self.....................find frog