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The Truth Behind The Witches Hat

AI slop is littering your feed and spreading misinformation, so WIRED’s here to set the record straight. Join Professor & Historian of Witchcraft & Demonology Mikki Brock as we fact check the internet, Witchcraft edition. #Witchcraft #Witch #Halloween Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► Download the WIRED app: Listen to the Uncanny Valley…

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#Witchcraft #Witch #Halloween

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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.

    • @waitz001

      October 23, 2026 at 9:04 pm

      ​@zivzulanderif I didn’t look it up , then THAT MEANS i only understand my own anecdotal context …but i DID LOOK IT UP, and CONFIRMED it’s ETYMOLOGY.

      are you homeschooled?

  5. @waitz001

    October 23, 2026 at 6:39 pm

    “heyday” is an odd way to describe witch *trials …

  6. @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 🤷🏻

  7. @KenGray

    October 23, 2026 at 8:42 pm

    Not true. Gandolf wore one.

  8. @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.

  9. @Fisk111

    October 23, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    a lot of this “folklore” is based in reality in the traditions of semitic people drawing the blood of gentile children and sacrificing them to saturn.

    • @aaronrodgers9611

      October 24, 2026 at 12:22 am

      Listen to yourself. “Reality?” You wouldn’t know it.

    • @Fisk111

      October 24, 2026 at 1:42 am

      @aaronrodgers9611 hansel and gretel still goes on to this day.

  10. @mikasayeager7234

    October 23, 2026 at 11:20 pm

    very stereotypical for me pointed hats are comfy to wear and good in fashion, love the historian for educating us

  11. @justimagine2403

    October 24, 2026 at 1:09 am

    Like Santa

  12. @user-zp8pn4no8k

    October 24, 2026 at 2:05 am

    Not everything revolves around jews 😅

  13. @AYO_Beerus9001

    October 24, 2026 at 8:31 am

    Everything is antisemitic now

  14. @thewarlens9000

    October 24, 2026 at 8:31 am

    Everything is antisemitic now

  15. @AnnamayNu

    October 24, 2026 at 1:54 pm

    Why do you smile talking about witch trials?

    • @pippa3150

      October 26, 2026 at 6:33 pm

      She’s talking about witch hats. Chill.

  16. @ellenlandowski1659

    October 25, 2026 at 2:42 pm

    I have heard that women brewed beer in cauldron in market places. The tall pointed hat was for customers to find them in the crowd. The men who brewed were jealous of the women’s prosperity and started rumors that the women’s brew was poisonous and that they were dangerous to children…and it stuck…

    • @tsunamifoxy

      October 30, 2026 at 11:30 am

      Always men and their jealousy ruining everything 🤬

  17. @GabboBo

    October 26, 2026 at 1:51 pm

    I HATE that hat

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