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THE BROOM AND THE WITCHES12:26 Nov 07 2012
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~ An romanian article translated by me from the Portal of Romanian Witches ~
"It seems that this common tool had an important role in the industrialization era. This tool has created rivalries between USA and Great Britain and it entered in rituals and myths.
We can imagine how in prehistoric era a woman has cleaned the cave floor with a branch broken from a tree, while his man was at hunting. Well, this action existed from the ancient times and the tool (the broom) didn’t changed too much.
Before 1797, the brooms were handmade, from braches, straw or dried herbs tied together. These weren't too efficient and they broken quickly. The manufacturing of brooms was made dayly. Some people say that the first innovator in this domain was a farmer from Massachusetts, named Levi Dickenson. He thought to make a broom from sorghum (a plant which is related with the corn) for his wife. In this way, was demonstrated that the dried stems of sorghum are more efficient than branches.The Dickenson’s broom has spread rapidly.
The next invention belongs to the american farmer, too. Because he was unhappy that his brooms broken quickly, he built a farming machine (in 1810) which helped him to make stronger brooms in a short time. The farming machine had an important role in the Industrial Revolution. Meanwhile, in Europe, the brooms was built from willow branches.
All the brooms was circular (round) till now. The branches or other materials were tied around a bigger brach or around a handle specially fabricated. The monks from the United Society of Believers order (named Shakers) concluded that the flat brooms should be more efficient. For the first time, the monks have used the wire for tied the branches by handle. The USA exported brooms to Canada, South America and Europe, but not in Great Britain (here, the local producers had the monopoly).
The broom was used in rituals. So, during the Second World War the american submarines hung out a broom when they returned in port. In this way they announced that they had “swept” the enemies.
A wedding ritual of the africans slaves, before 1600, has a part named “the jump over broom”. For africans slaves was forbidden to marry at church. The wedded pair put a handle of broom across the door and then they jumped over it. In the new household the broom was a precious symbol.
The question is: “Why the wiches fly on brooms?” Perhaps the broom was a symbol of woman's domestic universe. Or maybe the association has etymological origins: the root of the spanish word “Bruja” (witch) derives from the latin word “strux” (bird) and then from “brux”. On the other hand, it believes that witches were preparing an ointment with hallucinogenic effects which they stretched on body with the brooms. Then, the witches were riding brooms and were flying over the harvests to show them how tall they grow up.
Other explanation should be that during the witches Sabbath, the women used to jump over the broom. As with they jumped higher so the harvest would be richer (because the broom was a symbol of fertility).
Why the witches were portrayed riding on broom? Some witches were traveling on a horse, but the poor witches were traveling on down with a broom or a walking stick for helping themselves when jumping over the ditches or other obstacles.
Who were the witches in reality? Usually they were single and poor women and they were happy by every soul beside them. That’s why speaking more witches women and not witches male. The witches were vulnerable and couldn't put up in front of evil people and they were dying innocent. In witches house existed a little table, a black cat and a broom after the door."
The source: The Portal of Romanian Witches
http://www.vrajitoare.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=240:mitul-vrjitoarelor-vampirilor-i-a-altor-fiine-enigmatice&catid=14:intre-istorie-i-mit&Itemid=8
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