Nothing like waking up to see a bunch of misinformation on witches circulating on Facebook 
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Replying to @HalstedMedieval
What was a shitpost on Ireland Simpson’s Fans about medieval myths about the clitoris and witchcraft (idk) turned into people posting articles about how the brooms were phallic instruments and witches ingested ergot via their genitals? Also Pope Gregory IX caused the Black Death?
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Oh wow those are some Takes, for sure ...do brooms even come into witchcraft imagery before like the fifteenth century
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @HalstedMedieval
Magic and Superstition in Europe (2006) Michael Bailey says that "one of the earliest known depictions" is a drawing in the margin of Martin le Franc's Champion des dames (1440 or 1442).pic.twitter.com/ehMZ1v91JS
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Replying to @DougMcCrae @AdmiralHip
Nice, thank you for the brilliant citation! I knew broomsticks weren’t properly “medieval”
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Replying to @HalstedMedieval @DougMcCrae
This one lady is insisting that witches rubbed flying ointment on their bits with broom handles and I’m going mad lmao.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @DougMcCrae
Omg


didn’t know that’s where the flying ointment went. You’d think Apuleius would have mentioned, given how horny he was1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
Y’all there are like, two or three medieval reference to this ointments. Something tells me they weren’t a thing lmao.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @DougMcCrae
No no they were definitely a thing and witches were a psychedelic fertility cult stretching from France to Russia. I know cause I read it in a book* *this is technically true, I have read this in a book
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