08/26/2025
Our beautifully curated vintage Hearth/Besom Brooms are awaiting your companionship! Now available
🧹Witches Brooms or Besoms have both practical and symbolic uses. Historically, they were simply household tools made of twigs bound to a stick, used for sweeping floors or clearing hearths. Over time, they became important in ritual practices, especially for symbolic cleansing—witches would “sweep” their ritual space, not to remove dirt, but to clear away negative energy. The broom also came to represent protection, with many traditions placing one by the door or across a threshold to ward off unwanted spirits. In some cultures, brooms were used in fertility and marriage rituals, such as “jumping the broom” to symbolize union and new beginnings. The most iconic association, however, is the image of witches flying on brooms, a legend that likely grew out of old shamanic practices and folklore, where the broom symbolized a tool for traveling between worlds. In this way, the witch’s broom is not just a simple tool, but a symbol of cleansing, protection, transition, and magical journeying.🧹
