Giving Fr Ed Broom, Omv
Popular anxiousness about witchcraft had subsided by the 18th century. But the image of witches flying on broomsticks endures—especially on Halloween. This “broomstick dance,” she writes, became confused with common accounts of witches flying through the evening on their way to orgies and other illicit meetings. By the time of Edelin’s “confession,” the concept of witches riding around on broomsticks was currently effectively established. General they are nonetheless performing the very same function of moving dust and debris for you….