“I always wanted to be a witch because I thought that being a witch was the absolute most fun thing you could be on Halloween, and I didn’t want to go as a hot dog or a box of Kleenex, you know, I wanted to be a witch.” —Stevie Nicks 🌙
No one was gonna tell me the pointed witches hat was rooted in antisemitism?
So during the Spanish Inquisition everyone that was accused of not following Christianity (mainly Jewish people) was forced to wear the pointed hat. Then anyone associated with Jewish people were forced to wear the hat (and it was a source of shame to be wearing the hat because the hat by this point had been associated with Jewish people).
Then many years later people accused of witch craft were forced to wear the hat. Again it was supposed to be a source of shame specifically because it was associated with Jewish people (who'd been forced to wear said hat for hundreds of years as a punishment for being Jewish).
And the witches hat as well as the dunce hat comes from this antisemitic history. Where at first it was used to punish Jewish people, then it was used to humiliate others by associating them with Jewish people.
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It kind of reminds me of that meme "Yes, everything in American history is about racism." Except this time it's "Yes. Everything in European history is about antisemitism."
I decided to film how I customized a crochet witches hat for my Halloween costume of a Forest Witch , I was also in a time crunch so some parts may be revisited - such as the clothing. You can see the video at our Youtube channel HERE.
Over 100 hours of work. Designing, pencil work, inking, more inking, and even more inking, my Wimmelbilder the Witches Haunt is finally finished!
It has Witches enjoying a Hot tub in a cauldron. Some are having a cup of tea in the Witches Brew.
I also have little root creatures I call Rootles getting up to mischief!
I’m selling prints of this piece, and a hand-embellished ones with unique characters, over at my Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1325702913/witches-haunt-wimmelbilder-halloween