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.
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:
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.