interesting... ill add a more ancient origin of why the broomstick/witch is associated with halloween.. Cyclical Catastrophes, Randall Carlson goes pretty deep on it here and talks about it but ill try to explain or post another link too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucn175R8WgY&t=569s&ab_channel=AfterSkool around 1:10:00 he gets into the witch and broom.. it comes from a "Broom star" comet such as the famous halleys comet, when going through the air the flare out of the fire seems like the end of a broom and witch being evil, its evil flying through the air.. and the relevance of this is that comets or meteors seems to pass by through out human history around the end of october through beginning of november and Randall believes through his research civilization has met its doom around this time of the year OVER AND OVER again, including the meteor that destroyed the dinosaurs..Something like that

He has a chart in this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-d4zfovcog&ab_channel=AfterSkool at the timestamp 11:00 (this video is shorter and i recommend EVERYONE WATCH IT. VERY IMPORTANT VIDEO!) that shows through his lifes research ALL THE CATASTROPHES that have ever destroyed Earth (not just comets but floods, pole shifts, etc) have all happened during the changing of the ages.. and we are currently in the changing of an age, and if you heard about the comet that is passing by us around this time, it will be back in 6 years. https://thehill.com/homenews/space/4212562-nasa-predicts-large-asteroid-impact-could-be-in-earths-future/

https://www.universetoday.com/163375/comet-encke-and-the-halloween-fireballs-of-2023/

and look at the name!! Encke.. like Enki... Enlil.. i just realized that. this comet could theoretically be the one to kill us since we are in changing of age and it will be around Halloween.. scary shit(thats my theory i put together lol hope im wrong)

according to randall the ancient civs have all talked about the pleadies start system and the comets always come from the Pleadies when it is on the shoulder of the bull taurus.. he says around that time of the year (Halloween) you can see the Pleadies on the shoulder. Thats where our doom will come from brothers.. I hope yall enjoyed my post i dont post often

The legend of Witches flying at night on broomsticks has its origin in shamanic practices that survived well into the Middle Ages. The witches rubbed the ointment onto a staff, then they rubbed their genitals on it to enter a trance state where they could communicate with demonic entities:

Some sources have claimed that such an ointment would best be absorbed through mucous membranes, and that the traditional image of a female witch astride a broomstick implies the application of flying ointment to the vulva>

Probably 99.99 % of all women persecuted for Witchcraft in Europe and the New World colonies were completely innocent. But the remaining part knew exactly what they were doing.

Fascinating. Got any more related information?