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Woodcut showing a witch on a broomstick with a conical hat, from The History of Witches and Wizards (1720). The origins of the witch hat as displayed today are disputed. One theory is that the image arose out of antisemitism: in 1215, the Fourth Council of the Lateran issued an edict that all Jews must wear identifying headgear, a pointed cap known as a Judenhut.
Post one of these short witch quotes and sayings from movies and TV on Instagram for a magical Halloween. Go with something cute, funny or straight-up witchy.
A witch ball on display at Whitby Museum in Yorkshire. A witch ball is a hollow sphere of glass. Witch balls were hung in cottage windows in 17th- and 18th-century England to ward off evil spirits, witches, evil spells, ill fortune and bad spirits. [1] The witch ball were used to ward off evil spirits in the English counties of East Sussex and ...
Apotropaic marks, also called 'witch marks' or 'anti-witch marks' in Europe, are symbols or patterns scratched on the walls, beams and thresholds of buildings to protect them from witchcraft or evil spirits. They have many forms; in Britain they are often flower-like patterns of overlapping circles. [24] such as hexafoils.
Witch (an—often female—practitioner of witchcraft) and wicked (an adjective meaning "bad, evil, false") are both derivative terms from the word, wicca (an Old English word with varied meanings, including soothsayer, astrologer, herbalist, poisoner, seductress, or devotee of supernatural beings or spirits).
In the autonomous Spanish community of Catalonia, the pessebre, or the nativity scene, would feature all the usual characters with one addition: a person wearing a traditional red-colored ...
Cases of norovirus are spiking in the U.S. along with other illnesses in what some are calling a “quad-demic” of viruses.. Often referred to as the stomach flu, noroviruses aren’t actually ...
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