Young girl in a witch costume with a smoking cauldron in front of her.
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Witches & Beer; a Weird History

How the modern image of the witch was influenced by early European beer production

Jenna Goldsmith
4 min readOct 20, 2019

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Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

This is one of the most famous lines in English literature, said by the trio of witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The play was first performed in 1606, but the idea of witchcraft in…

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