Tiny Witch

I got home today after a wonderful few days in Norfolk with my friends G & M and with M & M staying too.  It was really lovely for G and I to both celebrate our birthdays together and with friends.

So as it's Tuesday I started looking around for a tiny subject for the Tiny Tuesday challenge, thanks to Trisharooni for hosting.  I thought I'd photograph this tiny witch, a present from my great friend T, against a background of a box of matches for context (desaturated slightly to avoid them dominating too much!).  She normally sits in the hand of another spooky ornament, a Hengeman (a black cloaked figure which is sort of hollowed out),

Did you know that:
- King James VI of Scotland (later James I of England) wrote a book about witches and demons;
- There are four witches in Macbeth, not three as Hecate, Queen of the witches, appears in a scene which is often left out;
- There were 270 Witch Trials in Elizabethan England, of 247 women and 23 men;
- A woman who lived alone and who kept animals for company would be in danger of being accused of being a witch;
- Pope Innocent VIII issued a papal bull that recognised the existence of witches;
- The Witchcraft Act of 1735 was technically still official until 1951 when it was replaced by the Fraudulent Mediums Act.  The last person convicted under the Act was in 1944.