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Do You Know the Origins of the Pointy Black Witch’s Hat?

 Author: circlesbehindbars editor  Published Date: February 23, 2020

This article by Hayley Williams discusses the racist anti-Semitic origins of the description of Witches wearing a pointy black hat–and all this time many of us though the culprit was Hollywood!

https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2020/02/today-i-discovered-the-racist-origins-of-the-pointy-witch-hat/

Author: circlesbehindbars editor

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