Witches Riding facts

While investigating facts about Witches Riding Brooms and Witches Riding Broomsticks, I found out little known, but curios details like:

After being seriously burned in her disappearing scene in Munchkinland, Margaret Hamilton (The Wicked Witch of the West) refused to do a subsequent scene requiring her to ride a smoking pipe broomstick. Her fill-in was hospitalized for eleven days with serious burns when the pipe exploded.

how did witches riding broomsticks begin?

The idea of witches riding broomsticks originates in the Middle Age practice of women using broomsticks to apply psychedelic ointments to their vaginas

What does witches riding your back mean?

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what is the origin of witches riding brooms?

1. The image of witches riding broomsticks comes from the medieval practice of witches applying a potent "flying ointment" onto the handles of brooms or whisks and placing it between their legs to absorb the hallucinogenic properties through the mucus membranes of their vaginas.

2. James Patterson has written several series in addition to the Alex Cross series including the Women's Murder Club series, the Maximum Ride series, the Michael Bennett series, the Daniel X series, the Witch & Wizard series, and the Middle School series.

3. Witches do not wear black pointy hats. They do not have warts on their faces and ride around on brooms. These are all myths that people created because of their fear.

4. Snow White's Scary Adventures ride at Disney's Magic Kingdom had an original version too scary and intense, with the ride ended by having the Witch crushing "Snow White" (aka the riders) with a large diamond

5. Traditional witches would smear their "broomsticks" with drugs and ride them naked to absorb the drugs through the "hairy place". This would simulate flying.

6. The original Snow White attraction at Disney World from 1971 to 1994 was really terrifying and scarier than the current lighthearted version at Disneyland. In WDW version, you were acting as Snow White and you get killed at the end of the ride with a witch dropping a giant diamond on the riders.

7. The idea that witches ride brooms started in Middles Ages when people first realized that administering hallucinogens through bodily mucous (one's nose... or vagina) caused for less adverse sickness. 'Witches' were, in fact, women that used their drug-laden brooms to get, quite literally, high.

8. Learned that witches are depicted as riding flying broomsticks due to the absorption of a hallucinogen called ergot. The non-ingestible compound was frequently absorbed via mucous membranes in the genitals while being applied with a convenient broom handle.

Why are witches shown riding brooms?

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Witches are associated with broomsticks because early witches were known to make hallucinogenic compounds (which gave the sensation of flying) and then lather a broomstick with it. "Riding the broom" while naked would allow them to take in the chemicals through their genitals.