“Well, you see Anne, the broom is a powerful protection, and what’s more, it’s a symbol connected with witches. Putting one on the house door, for instance, will protect you from evil eyes and spells, they get imprisoned in the bristles. If you leave it upside down, it wipes away gossip. Mal always gives me one at Imbolc, because that’s the period of the year devoted to cleaning, people get purified and throw away the waste, just like dirt. When you use it to clean the house, it doesn’t need to touch the floor directly, visualizing it in your mind is enough, so negative astral accumulation will fly away. The broomstick is usually made of ash, it’s a protective tree, the fibres are made of purifying birch, tied up by a willow branch, that’s a sacred tree for the Goddess. But with Helen, nei
