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Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld has Nobita creating an alternate universe where magic exists, and everyone flies on broomsticks or carpets by default.

It is quite the powerful multipurpose tool, perfect for a witch-themed spirit.

Natsumi's angel in Date A Live is a flying broomstick that she can ride on, use to appear before people, and transform things with.

A Certain Magical Index: Aleister uses a flying broomstick to rescue Touma from falling, in New Testament 18's Epilogue.

Double-subversion in Cardcaptor Sakura: Sakura does not ride a broomstick, but she uses her Magic Wand like this after she captures the Fly card until she upgrades it into a Sakura card and it lets her grow wings.

It's used as a test at the Magic Knights Entrance Exam to see how skilled a mage is based on how well they use it.

In the world of Black Clover mages use brooms to fly.

Isidro is quick to note how impressive it is to see a "actual witch" just to annoy the group's resident non-flying witch Schierke.

During the Fantasia arc of Berserk, the party meets an attractive (but aggressive) witch Morda who rides flying broomstick casually.

Mostly played straight in Akazukin Cha Cha, but it is also parodied: the school bus that the class rides to field trips on is this, with enough seats for everyone.

In the manga, Urd's broomstick is so jazzed up with magic, it is sentient.

The opening credits of the OVAs from the 1990s briefly show Belldandy on a broomstick, followed by Skuld riding a vaguely broom-shaped flying machine, and finally (in a subversion of a subversion) Urd riding a canister vacuum with the hose draped around her like a feather boa.

If also used as a weapon, it's a Broomstick Quarterstaff.

Compare Sky Surfing, in which various flying objects are ridden on while standing: particularly daredevil witches may well do this on their brooms. Similar to the Magic Carpet, which is also a flying object but has unrelated origins and applications.įor the Speculative Fiction version see Rocket Ride. In these cases, however, it's likelier for the joke to be pushed further and to show the witch riding around on a vacuum cleaner even more recently, witches might be seen flying on roombas, as an ultra-modern broom. When they are, it'll often be as a joke on witches getting on with changing times. If two witches are shown together, the difference in how they sit on their brooms usually relates to a Tomboy and Girly Girl dynamic.Īppearance-wise, these broomsticks are almost always the old-fashioned kind made by tying bristles in a rough cone around the end of a long stick modern brooms are very rarely put to such uses. But if these difficulties are discussed at all, there will usually be a Hand Wave about how the same magic that causes the broom to fly also makes the experience more comfortable than it logically ought to be.Īt some point, witches were portrayed as riding the brooms side-saddle, similar to how women traditionally rode horseback. Prospective witches and warlocks should also try not to land wrong while sitting on their brooms either or you'll end up " Riding the Rail" if you know what I mean.

Today's depictions most often put the head in the back, for sake of an aerodynamic appearance (and for similarity with an exhaust pipe or jet engine).Īs brooms aren't exactly designed to be ridden upon, riding one would require really good balance so as not to fall off, especially when really high up. In the original woodcuts, they've got the head or brush part in front, logical enough since the original witch's broom was a staff with a carved phallic end and the brush was tied on as a disguise.

According to The Other Wiki the idea of witches riding on brooms goes back to at least 1453. Brooms are the traditional flying mount of the Witch Classic (and many a contemporary).