Those must have been awfully long brooms

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The other aspect of our image of witches is the broomstick. Unlike Harry Potter, witches did not use their brooms to play Quiddich. The image of a witch riding a broom may have come from a ceremonial dance to encourage a good harvest. In these jumping dances the higher you jumped, the higher your crops would grow. Broomsticks were probably used like a pole vault to jump as high as possible. This may have looked like flying to a superstitious onlooker.