... these stereotypes.! One common stereotype of witches is the ever-popular broomstick, along with the pointy black hat and ominous black cat. In the short story, "Young Goodman Brown", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the witch Goody Cloyse, is recorded saying that her broomstick "hath strangely disappeared". However, this stereotype is very untrue. "The information about witchlike stereotypes such as brooms, pointy hats, etc ... shall be put to death. Also, religious leaders would tell the people that witches were doing the Devil's work on earth. "In a book entitled Malleus Maleficraum, written i...

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