A picture of the great horned owl in Illinois who was captured flying through the air with a toy stick horse—delighting the internet with a silhouette ... lot like a witch on a broomstick.

But you may not know where that witchy silhouette comes from ... it’s hard to know if the coned hat and broomstick would be the iconic picture of a witch. Our image of what a witch looks ...

haranguing carbon-tax protesters in front of a poster proclaiming "Ditch the Witch", with a silhouette of a hag with a pointed hat and huge nose on a broomstick. That neat portmanteau image of ...

Michael D. Bailey does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

Two witches, one astride a broom and another on a stick, illuminate the margins of the fifteenth-century poem “Le champion des dames” by Martin le Franc. Depictions of witches in medieval ...

By Remy Tumin At first, the silhouette looked familiar — a person in a pointed hat with a long robe holding a broom-shaped object. But the setting felt out of place. What would a witch be doing ...