Did You Know ...?
Harry Potter preferred the Quidditch to the traditional witches broomstick.
In Holland a witch was allowed to declare her broomstick as a tax deductable item!
The significance of witches' broomsticks is a fusion of several ideas:
- There is the plant fertility ritual where the women who plant the crops and vegetables jump over the broomstick to urge the plants to grow tall and strong.
- Linked to jumping over the broomstick is the idea that handfasting couples would jump over the broomstick as part of a betrothal ceremony. Hence the phrase 'living over the broomstick', meaning living together but married.
- Witches are supernatural beings who need to fly, thus the broomstick becomes the perfect vehicle for travelling to and from the after-life.
- Allied to this mystic idea is the use of the broomstick for a witch's spells and other mischief.
- A more mundane use of witches broomsticks is for leaping over streams and other rural obstacles.
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