What objects or animals(or anything else for that matter) do you think of when you hear the word witch?

Question

think of objects or animals that come to mind when someone says the word witch. i've got broom, cauldron, hat, potion, wart, and black cat. are there any other things that may come to mind? be creative!

Answer 1

Halloween Witch

Each year they parade her about, the traditional Halloween Witch. Misshapen
green face, stringy scraps of hair, a toothless mouth beneath her deformed
nose.

Gnarled knobby fingers twisted into a claw protracting from a bent and
twisted torso that lurches about on wobbly legs.

Most think this abject image to be the creation of a prejudiced mind or
merely a Halloween caricature. I disagree, I believe this to be how Witches
were really seen. Still are for many non-educated....

Consider that most Witches were women, healers, herbalists, midwives...they
were abducted in the night, and smuggled into dungeons or prisons under the
secrecy of darkness to be presented by light of day as a confessed Witch.
Few if any saw a frightened normal looking woman being dragged into a secret
room filled with instruments of torture, to be questioned until she
confessed to anything suggested to her and to give names or what ever would
stop the questions.

Crowds saw the aberration denounced to the world as a self-proclaimed Witch.
As the Witch was paraded through town en route to be burned, hanged,
drowned, stoned or disposed of in various other forms of "Christian love"
all created to free and save her soul from her depraved body, the jeering
crowds viewed the results of hours of torture. The face bruised and
broken by countless blows bore a hue of sickly green. The once warm and
loving smile gone replaced by a grimace of broken teeth and torn gums that
leers beneath a battered disfigured nose.

The disheveled hair conceals bleeding gaps of torn scalp from whence cruel
hands had torn away the lovely tresses. Broken twisted hands clutched the
wagon for support, fractured fingers with nails torn away locked like
groping claws to steady her broken body. All semblance of humanity gone this
was truly a demon, a bride of Satan, a Witch.

A christian name, given to us, who have honored the Earth Mother, Mother
Nature, or by whatever name you call to her; Mother Mary, Goddess....and any
true witch will tell you, we don't even believe in Satan, doesnt
make sense to give negativity a name, let alone an identity....

Well, you did ask and this is what I think of. At least this time of year. I am a witch and am a beautiful woman. It just depends.
Lady Trinity~

Answer 2

magic, long gray hair, herbs, potions, cauldron, iron, stew, black hooded cape, many layers of clothing, crystals, full moon and waning crescent moon, autumn, old trees, pointed shoes or boots, gentle hands, arthritis, a large ring (maybe holding a special powder?), wand, many pouches filled with herbs, plants and stones. Glass vials of colored liquids. Small stone house in the woods with fireplace, crow/raven, owl, cats, mice, wolves, bats. Wood pile near the house. Spellbooks, candles, broom, red roses, children. Grandmother (?)

Answer 3

Elizabeth Montgomery

Answer 4

In my country Nigeria, the word witch is synonimous to Black Cat , Vulture and Owl.

Answer 5

Cats are most closely associated with witches because they are their familiars. These creatures help witches and guide them- they are said to be witches themselves that have passed on the help other witches.

Answer 6

Great Sex I am sure a witch knows some magic tricks she can do with inanimate objects

Answer 7

cauldron,cloak,cats,bonfire,candles,flowing skirts,spells,druming,dancing the spiral,spells,broomsticks,rings,altars,crows,stars,moons,long hair,and full moons

Answer 8

Pointy stick, badger. Well that is what I thought of.

Answer 9

toad, warts

Answer 10

healing and midwives