How to Use a Broom in Witchcraft

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"On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Caroline, and I'm here to tell you about Witchcraft. This is a besom. A besom is basically a broom, but it's used for cleaning the circle that you cast of astral entities or negativity. If you get a piece of dust or dirt in it, that's just a plus that you're cleaning. But normally it is not used to clean the tangilbe, it is used to clean the etheric or astral level. What you would do is you would go widdershins, which is backward, around the circle. Backward meaning anti-clockwise. If I was going clockwise, I would call that Deosil, which means sunwise. The besom gosh, it has its' lore, way back when. This one just happens to be handmade from an actual broom squire, and I hang it up. I do not use it for anything. No cobwebs, just for ceremony. I actually drive a Ford; I don't fly my broom around. Although I think if I could, it would be a little bit of fun to do that and zoom past somebody's window; it is flammable. So when using it, I make sure that I'm not using it near candles or anything. "