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I'm thinking about adding a small section for three witches - one the Gemmy hipster plus two others. The area would have cover on three sides and a roof. What are your favorite witch environments? All ideas welcome.

A silent foreign movie with witches and witches scenes that you will never find anywhere else.
An incredibly visual experience , especially since it was made so long ago.
excellant use of shadow and naturally scary looking people, realistic settings!

Originally Posted by Gym Whourlfeld

A silent foreign movie with witches and witches scenes that you will never find anywhere else.
An incredibly visual experience , especially since it was made so long ago.
excellant use of shadow and naturally scary looking people, realistic settings!

Saw some scenes on YouTube. You trying to get me banned from the neighborhood? Parts I saw are a little over the top for my haunt.

But thanks for making me aware of Haxan. Pretty interesting for a 1922 movie.

Maybe try a cave type thing. Get a cheap plastic couodren with dry ice or a chiller, and through a cheap red or green flood lamp in it. The cave can be simple papier mache and chicken wire. I can say simple because I'm not the one that has to do it

The wicked witch of Oz has a great castle room , I like hers, other options care the cave, or a hut, like hansel and gretal(sp?) , or like the hut in hocus pocus. Any of those would be great.
I also am having a coven, but will have to make mine in the grave yard, not sure how else to set them up.

Don't copy Haxan! The lighting, the set decorations, those shadowy figures, the art of the look of it all notice these things.
Don't be having old women filling chamber pots on doorsteps("Haxan")
And it should go without saying, the sexual stuff is a big no-no.

Are you familiar with James Bama's painting for the Aurora model "The Witch"? Pretty good representation of a witch's lair...

Originally Posted by bethene

The wicked witch of Oz has a great castle room , I like hers, other options care the cave, or a hut, like hansel and gretal(sp?) , or like the hut in hocus pocus. Any of those would be great.
I also am having a coven, but will have to make mine in the grave yard, not sure how else to set them up.

Funny you should mention Hocus Pocus. Gym's suggestion about a movie brought that to mind immediately. I'm going to get a copy and see what, if anything I can glean out of it for the set up.

The paper mache cave would look cool, but I have a major storage challenge so I need to keep the bulk down.

ChrisW's painting has some good stuff in it. Maybe if I use colored lights and some stain of some kind, I could use Scene Setter stone walls cut still obtain a unique look to it. Add a fireplace and a silk/light fire. Hocus Pocus had that cool book too - maybe I can adapt the skin covered book to make the HP book too.

For our witch's room, we got a whole bunch of wild grapevines and draped them all over the ceiling. it gave a cave-y look to the room. it closed it in alittle if you know what i mean. it was very cool. we also did that in the devil's room, because my husband wanted to have the feeling that you were underground ( and the vine looked like roots from above) He wanted to put a coffin hanging from the ceiling too , but we didn t get around to it. we just stapled where we could and tucked the vine in where ever we could. Another good thing about wild vines ,is you don t have to store them when your finished, just burn em or throw them out.

My two-story Italianate 1880 Ravens Grin Inn is covered with those vines!
They began 20 yrs. ago as a small branch clinging to the power line support cable.
One summer was a drought like summer but this vine has roots that go down over the cliff to the wet river bottoms, so that really hot summer it went nuts!
It looks like that one vine might actually wrap all the way around my property from the north to the south going east all the way 125 feet to the backyard.
It does give this house quite a "Look"! Like veins and arteries after the leaves fall from it, right on schedule, the first week of October usually!