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SHIFTHEADS: Witches Who Flew Without Leaving the Ground
Witchcraft has a story in which flying never requires leaving the ground. Dr Joe Schwarcz connects that image with plant chemistry, opening a different route into the history behind the Halloween broomstick.
A plant associated with beauty also appears in accounts of witches' visions. The familiar flying figure takes on another meaning when the sensation and the physical event become separate questions. What could produce the experience that the story describes?
Even an ordinary loaf of rye bread enters the picture. Joe outlines a contamination theory proposed for Salem, where reported…
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