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And we have them to thank for witches' hats! """ They wore the tall, pointy hats so that their customers could see them in the crowded marketplace. They transp
by CalRobert 3y ago
And we have them to thank for witches' hats!
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They wore the tall, pointy hats so that their customers could see them in the crowded marketplace. They transported their brew in cauldrons. And those who sold their beer out of stores had cats not as demon familiars, but to keep mice away from the grain. Some argue that iconography we associate with witches, from the pointy hat to the cauldron, originated from women working as master brewers.
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/women-used-dominate-beer-industry-until-witch-accusations-started-pouring-180977171/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/women-used-dominate-b...
- felideon 3y agoOr not... see the editor's note.
- CalRobert 3y agoWell that's what I get for remembering a thing I read a few years back, googling for a source, and then not checking my new source carefully.
- sgt101 3y agoI like to think that it was this thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_hat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_hat Maybe some ancient folk memory!!
- duped 3y agoIt's probably a mix of sources. Famously, Goya's Witches Flight (0) shows the three witches wearing the same hat decorated with flames that Inquisitors forced their victims to wear (1) (2) (the flames showing they were to be burned for not repenting). (0) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witches%27_Flight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witches%27_Flight (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capirote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capirote (2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanbenito https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanbenito