To help keep the blood inside fresh and preserved, the lid to the bottle features a screw lid and rubber gasket seal to ensure an airtight seal to keep the contents inside fresh and preserved. Some people wear them because they have an interest in Pagan history, some people interested in, or who even practice witchcraft, choose to wear them. Once you’ve squeezed the blood carefully into the vial, add the anti-coagulant following the instructions and combine the two. Before you begin thinking the worst, though, this does not necessarily mean that they have sinister origins.

Some people choose to fill them with the ashes of a dead loved one. Others fill them with sand from the beach or decorative dust or powder. Just like when you’re preserving a jar of jam, you should also ensure that the lid to your vial is sealed closed securely. To complicate matters further, blood can also be used to strengthen relationships or bonds, hence the term ‘bonded by blood’.We’re getting quite deep here, but it’s believed to represent your codes and ethics of which you live, die, and then live once again when resurrected.

With a hand-knotted put leather sliding rope design and a vintage tube filled with red imitation blood that attaches separately. When extracting your own blood, make sure you use sterile equipment and surroundings, and make sure your hands themselves are clean. So, while we don’t know exactly why vials of blood were used, we do know that the witchcraft theme is looking to be a pretty safe bet.

If you’ve ever cut your finger before, you’ll notice that at first the blood flows freely and comes out thin and watery. Despite anti-coagulants helping to preserve the blood, as well as a tight seal, eventually, the blood will oxidize and be considered past its best. Now, rub your fattest finger together on your thumb for 30 seconds to get it warmed up and to boost blood circulation. In this play, he did indeed include a vial of blood as one of the ingredients used in the witches’ potion that he wrote about. These bottles were widely used in the 17 th century when instructions were actually written down and presented to everyday individuals.

This in turn is said to show their lover that they trust them and would sacrifice their own life energy for them.Blood is often used as a symbol of life, but it can also be associated with death or injury, which again raises the positive or negative argument. It comes with a sealed vintage tube that is filled with imitation blood. That’s right, it’s red, it looks like blood, but it isn’t. It could even be a form of interpretive art, in the sense that the vial of blood represents whatever the wearer interprets it to mean. Couples such as Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton, and later, Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox, were spotted wearing them at big events. Recently, Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox also made headlines when they were spotted wearing them. It isn’t just couples that can wear them, though.

Available as a 1 – 5 piece, the sleek and stylish hourglass design of the vial really does look special and as an added bonus. Full sets of medical supplies such as medical-grade anti-coagulant, sterilizing solution, rubber gloves, gauze, band-aids, and more… It is also rust-resistant and very durable, so it will withstand a lot of punishment and last a considerable amount of time. These small vials became known as ‘witch bottles. Witch bottles were made by people who were worried that they had been victims of witchcraft. It even comes with a miniature funnel which you can use to fill the vial with your filling of choice.Using the lancet, make the incision and then gently squeeze it to extract around 5 – 10 drops of blood (depending on the size of the vial).