WITCHCRAFT, SUPERSTITION AND MAGIC
he pointy hat, long nose and broomstick have defined a popular image of the witch as a figure of fun, to be worn by children on Halloween alongside skeletons with cardboard bones and ghosts made out of bed sheets. Yet for centuries, witchcraft was a deadly serious subject and has its origins in antiquity. In Homer’s Odyssey the figure of Circe turns men into pigs
