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This is darling....By the way this is Sherry's first UFO....not sure....but since February and April are passed...this must be June's....But she has gotten a lot of UFOs done... just none were on her list...this one was suppose to be created by "Chocolate Night 2009"....better late than never.....and it is on her list...yea...giggle...If you enlarge it you can see all her fine embroidery...honestly when I got the picture and enlarged it, it took my breath away...

Still today the stereotypical image of a witch is that of an ugly old hag wearing a broad brimmed, tall and black pointed hat. “But where did the hat or image originate”? This hat does not conjure up an ugly old hag at all...all I see are 6 lovely "Stitchin Witches" with an interesting life living it to the fullest....in researching I found some very interesting info...

Is it possible that the witches hat is an exaggeration of the tall conical “Dunces Hat”, popular in the royal courts during the 15th century? Or the blunt-topped hats worn by the Puritans and Welsh of the same period . At one point long ago, pointed hats were a fashion icon in the city of London (then the fashion capital of Europe), but it took a long time for fashion to trickle into the country, and by the time they did, they became way out of fashion in the city. City folk called Country folk 'pagani' (which means country dweller), much the same as calling someone ‘a hick’, today.... (Okay I can wear that title...:)

Pointed hats soon became considered something only the 'pagani' would wear, most were Herbalists and Farmers wife’s who lived in the country and understood the land. Since they were wise to the ways of nature and could grow and harvest herbs, so the pointed hat became associated with the ‘Wise Woman’ or ‘Witch'. During this same period the Christian Church chipped-in and associated pointed hats with the horns of the Devil, by which time they frowned upon their use. ("Go figure")

Now as for the "Wise Woman" would that be our own "Elder" they are talking about here....hehehehehehe

There are other possible explanations.. if one has the time to research it out...but I need to get my crops harvest on Farmville and must go now...Love The Ol'Blogger..