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In fact, the familiar image of a witch flying on a broomstick has a surprisingly sexual origin.īasque witch illustration, artist unknownĪuthor Michael Pollan gives perhaps the most detailed description of the alleged sexual connection between witches and their brooms in his book, The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World. As he tells it, midwives, herbalists, and ladies in the know (aka witches) would cultivate “psychoactive” agents including datura, opium poppies, belladona, hashish, and even the skin of toads with trace levels of the hallucinogen DMT. Women’s bodies and minds were presumed to be more susceptible to vice, and thus more likely to be overtaken by the charms of Satan. As a result, the labyrinthine history of sex in witchcraft is a heady brew of intrigue, transgression, and repression.ĭuring the early modern witch-hunts in Europe (roughly 1300-1750), female sexuality was viewed as an abomination, but it was also a cultural obsession. For millennia, sex magic has been a powerful tool in the hands of gifted conjurers, but it has also been a practice slapped with negative distortions by generations of freaked out male historians. Witches use sexual energy to commune, to manifest, to make magic, and-in the case of the Medieval hags described in the 1486 witch-hunting bible the Malleus Maleficarum-even to steal penises. Both serious practitioners and characters in witchy lore are known for their abilities to unleash primal desires.
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From riding greased-up broomsticks to weaving seduction spells, the secret sex lives of witches are the stuff both wet dreams and nightmares are made of