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The book endorsed the extermination of witches and so developed a convoluted and detailed legal and theological theory to justify its treatise. [10] Albrecht Dürer, Witch Riding Backwards on a Goat, engraving, c. 1500. Because the women's hands are largely hidden, it is not supposed that the image refers to any specific activity or event.
In the narratives in which Baba Yaga appears, she displays a number of distinctive attributes: a turning, chicken-legged hut; and a mortar, pestle, and/or mop or broom. Baba Yaga may ride on the broom or, most recognizably, inside a mortar, using the broom to sweep away her tracks. [1]
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on be.wikipedia.org Ведзьма; Usage on br.wikipedia.org Gwrac'h; Usage on ca.wikipedia.org Cacera de bruixes a Terrassa
She was considered to ride with witches on distaffs, which closely resemble the brooms that witches are thought to ride. Likewise, Holda was often identified with Diana in old church documents. As early as the beginning of the 11th century, she appears to have been known as the leader of women, and of female nocturnal spirits, which "in common ...
Notable works include Dürer's The Four Witches (1497) and Witch Riding Backwards On A Goat (1500), as well as Baldung's New Year's Greeting with Three Witches (1514) and The Bewitched Groom (1544). [2] It is unknown if the 1506 drawing Hexensabbat by Albrecht Altdorfer influenced Baldung's print. [1]
It was a rags-to-witches story. How do witches play loud music? On their broom boxes. What does a young witch use to bake? An easy-bake coven. What do you call a witch’s spotless garage? A broom ...
The legend has it that the witches, indistinguishable from the other women by day, at night anointed their underarms (or their breasts) with an unguent and took off flying, pronouncing a magic phrase (recounted above), riding on brooms of sorghum. At the same time the witches became incorporeal, spirits like the wind; indeed, their preferred ...
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