Thread: Does anyone on here know about Witches?

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I am creating a witches theme Halloween/Haunted Trail and was wondering if anyone could tell me anything about witches that I could incorporate in my decorations?

My ex-wife is one....

Try giving the kids nasty meatloaf for trick or treating

Google is your friend. type in "witch facts"

We...ahem...they each have a book of shadows (a spell book to you mortals) Potion shelves, big into herbology and the like (think Creepy labled spice rack). General familiars like black cats, toads, and ravens are good. Rats too but sometimes they go in the cauldron. dont forget the brooms and a huge circle on the floor would be awesome:look up casting the circle for pics to see what I mean. Wands are ok like in harry potter. What exactly are you looking for? deco ideas? games?

I am having a "witches ball" Halloween party and I am turning my garage into a witches den. I also have about 2 acres of land that would make a perfect haunted trail. The haunted trail will lead into a big area where I will have a bonfire. On the way to the bonfire I would like to create scenes to add to the spook of the trail. I would like to keep it in the witches theme and that is where I am stuck.

perhaps some famous witches, the wyrd sisters and the like. or shops for purchasing "witchy" items on the way to the bonfire...

Hello!
I know a few members are planning some witch themes this year. Search "witch theme" in the site's main search field. Good luck!

If you have the space, you can make a Pentacle like this one. The diameter of the circle is 20' and I used the small tiki torches

Originally Posted by cocoapuff

I am creating a witches theme Halloween/Haunted Trail and was wondering if anyone could tell me anything about witches that I could incorporate in my decorations?

Try reading this thread, plenty of ideas with pictures here:
Witch props and ideas

To clarify -

There are TWO kinds of witches.

The first is a modern day pagan, and the only thing they might do that would qualify as horrifying is put too much cinnamon in their homemade mead. They, as a rule, are a lot of fun and some of the warmest people you could hope to meet.
Not all pagans are witches (or Wiccans) but those that are generally love witchy stuff and imagery.

Then there is the other witch, the ones we were warned about as kids by our grinning mothers, hags that could transform into seductive nymphs, that sang up storms and ruined crops, that dated demons and ate children and lived in houses made of carbohydrates.
Those were the ones guys convinced themselves had to be fantasy.
You can't get through the lunchline at school thinkin' those sorts of witches are real, they'll drug your jello and put you in a bed with straps while Bob the Builder episodes play on a tv screen over and over and over.
It's the fairytale witch, the ones the church were worried about (and some still do, for cryin' out loud), the mythical witch... well, mythical until your buddy starts dating one.

THAT is fairly alarming.

Most folks go for the magical fantastic witch imagery, with bubbling cauldrons, bottles and jars filled with impossible ingredients, brooms and buckled shoes, hats and all sorts of familiar animals, like cats, bats, toads, owls, rats and spiders.
Star covered and sparkly fabrics in purple, black and green, lanterns and candles, bones and feathers, wands and crystal balls and tarot cards can help round out a witchy party.
The best thing, however is a cavalcade (or a coven) of women all dolled up in pointed hats and stripped stockings bent over a punchbowl in the candlelight, cackling.

That is Halloween.