How do you plan to go from house to house tonight?
On your [b]Broomstick?[/b]
Why is the Broomstick associated with Halloween?
Well, it's a little dirty.
Witches were thought to have applied hallucinogenic"flying ointment" - um, internally - with a wooden staff.
An account from 1324 of a witch on trial says that "they found a pipe of ointment wherewith she greased her staffe, upon which she ambled and galloped through thick and thin." Right.
Although for the next few hundred years they were described as flying on anything from a cupboard to a fork, it seems to be the wooden staff imagery that really lasted.
Why is the Broomstick associated with Halloween?
Well, it's a little dirty.
Witches were thought to have applied hallucinogenic"flying ointment" - um, internally - with a wooden staff.
An account from 1324 of a witch on trial says that "they found a pipe of ointment wherewith she greased her staffe, upon which she ambled and galloped through thick and thin." Right.
Although for the next few hundred years they were described as flying on anything from a cupboard to a fork, it seems to be the wooden staff imagery that really lasted.
