{"id":11849,"date":"2020-10-29T20:26:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T02:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11849"},"modified":"2020-10-29T20:26:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T02:26:30","slug":"the-witchs-hat-where-did-it-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11849","title":{"rendered":"The Witch&#8217;s Hat: Where Did It Come From?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Da0pwR-woE?start=5\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Abby Cox tracks the history of the black, conical, flat-brimmed hat with a deteour into eighteenth-century dressmaking and other things: &#8220;Swedish witches are defnitely cottagecore witches, and I&#8217;m here for that.&#8221; If you are in a hurry and wish to skip patriarchy, etc., start at the 11-minute mark.<\/p>\n<p>Not discussed: handfuls of the &#8220;witchy aesthetic&#8221; derive from the movie <em>T<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0032138\/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_9\">he Wizard of Oz<\/a><\/em> (1939). It&#8217;s amazing how many people think that its costuming and makeup (green skin, striped socks) represent some kind of Historical Truth.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;eighteenth-century&#8221; part is because she spent years as a dressmaker and interpreter at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colonialwilliamsburg.org\/\"> Colonial Williamsburg. S<\/a>he is not a historian of witchcraft, but she does make an interesting argument from a fashion viewpoint, Written as an article, this video could have fit into the last issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.equinoxpub.com\/POM\/issue\/current\"><em>The Pomegranate<\/em>, which was devoted to Pagan art and fashion.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She is not saying that Quakers (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quakers\">the Religious Society of Friends, founded as a radical religious group in the late 1600s<\/a> ) were seriously mistaken for satanic witches.((Some propaganda, however, showed Quakers as influenced by the Devil, so the boundary was blurry at times.)) She is saying that the Quakers&#8217; &#8220;look,&#8221; one that emphasized out-of-date fashions for women in particular \u2014 &#8220;fifty years out of date&#8221; \u2014 might have influenced the way that witches were portrayed in 18th, 19th, and 20th century popular art. (She dates the first graphic appearance to 1720 \u2014 see 27:40 in the video.)<\/p>\n<p>There is no particular dress style associated with the actual women (and men) who were persecuated as witches in the 1400s\u20131600s. They wore whatever people wore in their time and place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abby Cox tracks the history of the black, conical, flat-brimmed hat with a deteour into eighteenth-century dressmaking and other things: &#8220;Swedish witches are defnitely cottagecore witches, and I&#8217;m here for that.&#8221; If you are in a hurry and wish to skip patriarchy, etc., start at the 11-minute mark. Not discussed: handfuls of the &#8220;witchy aesthetic&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,271,66,100,29],"class_list":["post-11849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-culture","tag-fashion","tag-halloween","tag-history","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-357","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10725,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10725","url_meta":{"origin":11849,"position":0},"title":"Caroline Tully on Pagan Art and Fashion","author":"Chas S. 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This is more a literary than a religious Satanism, although any story of Satan has its religious underpinnings: Although they attributed positive qualities to the figure of Satan,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"folklore\"","block_context":{"text":"folklore","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=folklore"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/satanic-197x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6467,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6467","url_meta":{"origin":11849,"position":4},"title":"Response by Robert Mathiesen to &#8220;Investigating a Grandmother Story&#8221;","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This guest post by Prof. Mathiesen began as a comment to my earlier review ofThe Rede of the Wiccae, which he wrote with Theitic of the NECTW tradition. With his permission, I have moved his comments here. Thank you, Chas! 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