What on earth is this? (Found outside my house)

[brooklyn66]

Yesterday came home to find a bit of folded-up paper wedged in a crack in the fence wall bit (pavement goes right past it). Opened it up to find 2x2p coins inside unrecognisable writing - see pic!
What is this?

Its a house protection spell. I did one on my home when I moved in. Not really whole thread, apologies if someone else already said this.

So what do the symbols mean Claire?

I'm surprised nobody has picked up on the value of the coins = 1 Groat.

OP, if you're in Bournemouth, then there's a known vergence on Turbary Common, where artifacts from the past have slipped through the time-travel-wormhole and been converted to the modern day equivalents.

If you are near there, then that's Fanny Mills's shopping list that went missing in 1417. It's a month's shop which is why it's such a long list. I can't read all of it, as in the transformation from Middle English written on badger skin, to something akin Modern English on what is ostensibly pulp torn from a notebook, a lot of the shopping has translated to gibberish, as the vergence attempts to understand what Hello magazine is all about (called Wotcha in 1417 and only printed twice a year at Wimborne Minster)

I can definitely read crushed beetle and half-a-swan though.

Are you on a leyline?

I'm a linguist. That doesn't look like any script system I'm familiar with, and I don't think it was written from the top down - the "loops" are linked to each other in a way that suggests left-to-right writing. If you look closely, the first "loop" on the left is a sort large L- or J-shaped character, which suggests that's where the person started "writing".

Also, I cannot see many - if any - identificable distinct characters. All the "loops" are pretty similar to each other. And the repeated L- or J-shaped character at the beginning is statistically very unlikely.

Frankly, I think this is just meaningless doodling or hypergraphia, as others have suggested. A witchcraft spell is also a possibility.

Btw @tigerbreadaddict I have PMd you on the offchance this is the answer! Quite unlikely I know...

It looks like something some of the kids I look after would do. Seemingly random squiggles, but there is always lots of repetition, because it's hard to be completely random.
They also do weird things like leave a few pennies wrapped up in a secret message, and hide it somewhere for their friend to pick up on their way to school or to give to me as a birthday present

Norland your explanation wins hands down. I'm sure I can see "monkeys eyes" on the list and they must have been very expensive back in the day so a groat may have covered it.

www.tomscott.com/ley/

I have a feeling that this site says "yes" whatever your postcode… every point on the map is on a straight line between that point and a single other point LOL

It's telling me I live in a straight line from stonehenge (doesn't everyone LOL)

Ellisandra They are likely to be sigils, which are unique to the particular spell/witch. paganroots.com/information/misc/sigil-magic/

Can I suggest that you put it back where you found it?

Tom then said:

So here's the truth: ley lines don't exist.

Sorry to disappoint you. The truth is, no matter where in England you are, this site will happily find you three ley lines — including one that goes through Stonehenge!
How?

Simple: there are over 9,000 scheduled monuments in England. We're running with a smaller database - about 3,000 of the most impressive ones - but that's more than enough to guarantee that hundreds of "ley lines" will pass right through your house.

The site picks a few directions, draws a line, and finds the closest sites of interest. By discarding the misses and showing you only the hits, something that's incredibly common can be made to look spectacular.

That's how ley lines, and maps of alien landing sites (and Woolworths stores!) work — they take advantage of the fact that the human brain is really bad at statistics.
So I'm not on a path of mystical power?

Sorry. But you are made of starstuff, and that's so much cooler.

If it was actual language then I would think that someone on here would have recognised it by now.

I actually have a wart lady. She doesn't require coins but we have to rub rice paper on the warts and then send it to her. Never say "thank you".
I know it's nuts but it works!

It's a curse. Have you seen Drag Me To Hell brooklyn66 ?

Clair the OP put it back and it was then removed by persons unknown.

Sorry Claire with an e

It's a secret code explaining that Bournemouth is not in the South West.

Just dropping in to see if anyone else has the answer.

Looking at the link on imgur, I get the feeling it is upside down. Also there is a lot of repetition, same symbols over and over, which would suggest not random writing but purposeful.

Sorry just noticed that it had been taken. Probably done its work and now been burned or buried.

It's a secret code explaining that Bournemouth is not in the South West.

It shouldn't be in Dorset but thats another matter........

It's a secret code explaining that Bournemouth is not in the South West.

It shouldn't be in Dorset but thats another matter........

Not in the south-west either; as about central-south as you can get (and there was a question asked about it in Parliament in c1997, to which the reply was it IS in Hampshire)

it's on the internet we are all cursed!!

Many a true word spoken in jest, Sassenach!

When I had warts as a kid a loonie new age type told me to rub copper coins on it and leave them at a crossroads with a spell. I had them frozen off at the GPs instead.

There is no poetry in your soul Tinsel

Norland

Plot twist:

Someone currently responsible for a huge amount of (very justified) MN anger (on a different, major thread), is attempting to engage us with this mystery, thereby deflecting attention away from themself.

So as to thwart suspicion of their involvement, they've told friend/ relative, living counties away from their own (widely-known) locale, to plant mysterious, coded letter/ coin packages in obvious places, as there's a high probability of intrigued MNer seeking wisdom from the masses.

OP just happened to be the quickest off the mark.

I jest. Desperate measures and all that...

I'm so fascinated by this...imaginative theories, speculation and sound expert opinion, yet the answer still remains tantalisingly unclear. Aaagh!