witches brooms.
Witches. They danced naked in the night. They flew on broomsticks. They dallied with the devil in a most intimate and obscene way. The witch, always in the throes of passion. Always eager. Never sated.
What started these tales of witches on broomsticks? Of witches seducing men only to steal their penises and set them in nests, high in trees where only they could reach them? Of witches using glamour on the newly emasculated male so no one knew but herself and that poor unfortunate fool? What was it about witches and sex and flying? witches brooms
It was ergot. Mandrake. Belladonna. Hallucinogenic plants like these 
and others. All deadly in high doses. All with nasty effects on the body even in doses small and few. But witches – women originally known for their skills as healers – knew well how to use these and other herbs to mix the right brew, the right salve or potion. They knew well how to get high.
Mandrake is also known as Satan’s Apple and as Devi’s Testicles. Though useful for its medicinal properties when used with care, ingesting even small doses could cause rather unpleasant spasms of the stomach, heart palpitations, sweating, delirium. Death. Belladonna is an analgesic when used safely. However, it can cause labored breathing, fainting, a rash, nausea. Death.
But what if you didn’t ingest these herbs? What if you pulverized them and made them into a salve? What effects could you expect then? Done wrong, you could die. Done right, you could fly. witches brooms
And so “the witch” made these ointments and applied them to parts of the body that would easily absorb their aphrodisiac and narcotic properties. The armpits. The palms. The feet. The labia. The vagina.
The extremities and armpits were easily accessed. The vagina took some – though not much – imagination. And so they would coat their palms with the salve then carefully, thoroughly apply it to the handle of a broom…and “ride it”. No doubt gently at first, allowing the first waves of the salve’s effects to take hold. And then more forcefully, frenzied as the desired effects took over. Lustful, writhing witches. Insatiable. Naked in the night. Riding brooms and doing dastardly deeds involving Satan and his testicles.
Be this a witch?
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Hey, what happened to the witch as an ugly old crone, cackling fiendishly as she tosses some eye of newt into her bubbling cauldron?
Ah, now THAT could be a whole ‘nother blog. 🙂 Originally, wise and respected women, soothsayers and healers who people sought out in times of need, of fear and of sickness, were known as a hag. As society grew patriarchal the world over, women of such traits were seen as a threat. Men were learned. Men knew medicine. Women, those creatures of inferior intellect, did not know these things. And could not possibly learn or understand them – unless by some purposeful twist of the natural order. So, the once revered traits of those wise and gentle women were then associated with dark sinful powers – and the once-lovely enchantress became the evil old hag or crone.
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Great post! Thing is, I can’t stop thinking about old rickety brooms you see in pictures and wonder how common it was for them to get splinters. lol
Thank you! Splinters?! Wow, yes, that would definitely put a damper on things! However…I would guess their craftsmanship was probably better than we might expect. Just think of how often they’d have to handle the broom and how painful it would be on their hands if they weren’t finished properly. Fine tuning their tools for daily chores would make them prime pieces for more imaginative uses. 🙂
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Jeepers, the things I didn’t know. But how did others find out about them “riding” broom sticks. I would suspect such activities would have been done in a more private or secluded location.
I’m with Carla about the splinters. Ouch!
Oh, great question! My guess would be watchers and other accusers. Witches were said to dance naked in the forest at night. It was part of their ‘sabbat’, their supposed love and worship ritual with Satan. Like today’s game of telephone, I would guess a terrified on-looker/spy would see the goings on in the forest and panic, fearful of what might come next (after all, they had all been warned about how evil was waiting to inhabit their souls) and they’d run off, the tale of what they saw would be told again and again, morphing into something much wilder than the already-wild truth.
About the splinters… That would certainly be a mood-breaker, wouldn’t it? 🙂 I do think their finishing work was probably better than we might imagine, though…or it would be after the first ‘ouch’. 😉
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