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The Truth Behind The Witches Hat

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  1. @NeoSkoolz

    October 23, 2026 at 5:37 pm

    This woman has brain as crocodile

  2. @alexburbank4628

    October 23, 2026 at 5:40 pm

    Perhaps an evolution of the Duns cap?

  3. @IvyCollins-p3u

    October 23, 2026 at 5:42 pm

    okay you’ve got my attention and I’m glad I clicked.

  4. @waitz001

    October 23, 2026 at 6:39 pm

    “heyday” is an odd way to describe witch trails …

    • @ABAB02020

      October 23, 2026 at 7:26 pm

      Not at all, heyday literally means its peak regular occurrence.
      What’s the issue with using the correct words

    • @waitz001

      October 23, 2026 at 7:36 pm

      ​@ABAB02020heyday infers a good time. if you had to look the word up, then you don’t understand it’s context.

    • @waitz001

      October 23, 2026 at 7:39 pm

      ​@ABAB0202016c. as an exclamation, an alteration of heyda (1520s), an exclamation of playfulness, cheerfulness, or surprise something like Modern English hurrah; apparently it is an extended form of the Middle English interjection hey or hei (see hey). Compare Dutch heidaar, German heida, Danish heida. Modern sense of “stage of greatest vigor” is recorded by 1751

      WORDS HAVE HISTORY.

      so, your “not at all,” is COMPLETEY WRONG.

    • @Carebearritual

      October 23, 2026 at 8:23 pm

      @waitz001not really

    • @zivzulander

      October 23, 2026 at 8:52 pm

      ​@waitz001 if you didn’t look it up, then it means you only understand your own anecdotal context. Which might mean you are the only person who thinks of it that way, as far as you know.

  5. @slackerman9758

    October 23, 2026 at 6:54 pm

    I mean, yeah, who doesn’t think that?

    • @AshFurAshFur

      October 23, 2026 at 8:55 pm

      Я не знал; не все стереотипам учат одинаково 🤷🏻

  6. @KenGray

    October 23, 2026 at 8:42 pm

    Not true. Gandolf wore one.

  7. @zivzulander

    October 23, 2026 at 8:51 pm

    The pointed hat’s association with magic (including for wizards) might go back as far as Osiris, in ancient Egypt.

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