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2. Magical tools in Wicca - Wikipedia

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   The besom or broom, is often associated with witches and witchcraft. The stories of witches flying on brooms originated from the besom. [citation needed] In Wicca, it is used in handfasting ceremonies wherein a couple jumps over it. The besom is also used in seasonal fertility dances as a representation of a phallus.

3. Cystotheca lanestris - Wikipedia

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   Cystotheca lanestris, the live oak witch's broom fungus, is a species of mildew that infects buds and induces stem galls called witch's brooms on oak trees in California, Arizona, and Mexico in North America. [2] [3] Witch's brooms are "abnormal clusters of shoots that are thickened, elongated, and highly branched."

4. Flying ointment - Wikipedia

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   In the 2015 horror film The Witch, a witch kills an infant child and makes flying ointment out of his corpse. In the 2016 movie, The Love Witch, the main character applies a flying ointment to her body. In the 2019 movie, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, the two main characters apply a flying ointment to their armpits.

5. Witch's broom - Wikipedia

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   Witch's brooms on downy birch, caused by the fungus Taphrina betulina Witch's broom on a white pine. Witch's broom in Yamaska National Park, QC. Witch's broom or witches' broom is a deformity in a woody plant, typically a tree, where the natural structure of the plant is changed. A dense mass of shoots grows from a single point, with the ...

6. Witch's ladder - Wikipedia

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   One example of a modern witch's ladder is a string of 40 beads or a cord with 40 knots. Sometimes feathers, bones, and other trinkets are braided into the string as symbols for a desired spell effect. An earlier version of a witch's ladder consisted of a rope or cord of three, nine, or thirteen knots.

7. Cercosporella rubi - Wikipedia

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   Cercosporella rubi is a plant pathogenic fungus which causes blackberry rosette, [1] a disease that is also known as double blossom [2] or witches' broom [3] of blackberry. In infected plants, the symptoms that C. rubi causes are double blossoms as well as witches' brooms .

8. Guillaume Edelin - Wikipedia

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   He promulgated the idea that it was impossible for the Devil to make pacts or witches to fly on brooms. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He also confessed to having gone to the Sabbath "mounted on a balai ", the first reference to the use of a broomstick in connection with witchcraft.

9. Jacob's ladder (toy) - Wikipedia

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   A Jacob's Ladder unfolded Watch toy in action (Ogg Theora format, 1.7 MB) (). A Jacob's ladder (also magic tablets, Chinese blocks, and klick-klack toy [1]) is a folk toy consisting of blocks of wood held together by strings or ribbons.