Early modern people in Europe believed in witchcraft and the supernatural, and in times of duress, might blame supposed witches for unfavorable ... the pointy black hat stemmed from similar ...

few witches, if any, wear them in real life. “I really never encountered a serious witch who would ever wear a pointy hat, except to be cute, as a 'wink-wink' kind of joke. But never in a ritual ...

British filmmaker Elizabeth Sankey, who admits a childhood fascination with TV's “good witches”, like Bewitched's Samantha Stephens (Elizabeth Montgomery), recently found a deeper, more disturbing ...

"If you look at the stereotypical witches' garb that we think of — a cat, a pointed hat, a broom and a bubbling cauldron, for instance — those are all pieces of equipment essentially that ...