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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…
@NeoSkoolz
October 23, 2026 at 5:37 pm
This woman has brain as crocodile
@alexburbank4628
October 23, 2026 at 5:40 pm
Perhaps an evolution of the Duns cap?
@IvyCollins-p3u
October 23, 2026 at 5:42 pm
okay you’ve got my attention and I’m glad I clicked.
@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?
@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 🤷🏻
@KenGray
October 23, 2026 at 8:42 pm
Not true. Gandolf wore one.
@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.
@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.
@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
@justimagine2403
October 24, 2026 at 1:09 am
Like Santa
@user-zp8pn4no8k
October 24, 2026 at 2:05 am
Not everything revolves around jews 😅
@AYO_Beerus9001
October 24, 2026 at 8:31 am
Everything is antisemitic now
@AnnamayNu
October 24, 2026 at 1:54 pm
Why do you smile talking about witch trials?