Broom
The broom denotes the sweeping that orders a house and clears illusion, humble in the hand yet uncanny enough to carry a witch aloft.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Image
- Group
- Human World / House and Home
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Slavic folklore (1)
- Same group
- Mirror
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is a kind of this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Baba Yaga bears Slavic folklore
why
As she travels, she sweeps away all traces of her passage with a broom made of silver birch.