To understand the history of the witch’s hat, we first have to understand the history of witches, so our story begins around 1100 CE, with a fun pit stop in the 15th-century and that hot piece of trash known as Malleus Maleficarum (or The Witch’s Hammer OR the Hammer of Witches – depending on the translation), through 16th-century women’s fashion, a brief chat about Mother Louse and Alewives, and finally ending up with female Quakers and anti-Quakerism in 17th century Britain. Y’all. It was a ride. While I’m proud of the research I present in this video, I am still researching this topic and am working with Kenna Libes (https://www.instagram.com/kenna.sews/) on turning this into an academic article. Who knows, maybe in 2021, I’ll do a follow-up video where I roast myself on my own conclusions!

✨✨My Biblio/Works Cited is so big that it wouldn’t fit in the description so I’ve put them up as downloadable PDFs on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/witch-h…
(though most of my images come from the British Museum, Met Museum, British Library, and Wellcome Library)