jewish-privilege:

realsadjewishhours:

Don’t send me asks citing Quora saying that the pointed hat comes from beer brewers.

You really believe that?

You really believe that (1) thing is somehow not connected to Jewishness? That the curly hair the big nose, all proven to connected to antisemitism? That it’s proven that the witches were Jew-coded in medieval stereotypes that carried on to present day (even into fairy tale moves!!) but somehow SOMEHOW this one thing is not connected to Jewishness?

Goyische witches are a trip

Why Do Witches Wear Pointy Hats?   

“The two explanations that seem most plausible have to do with real-life marginalized groups. In his book, Jensen describes how the 1215 Fourth Council of the Lateran required all Jews to identify themselves by wearing the Judenhat (“Jewish hat” or “horned skullcap”). The style soon became a target for Anti-Semitism. Artists painted devils muttering curses beneath Jewish crowns. In 1431, Hungarian legal codes required first-time sorcery offenders to walk among their peers in “peaked Jews’ caps.” Medieval representations tying Jews to Satan were nothing new, and by the late 13^th century, Jewish attributes had soaked up enough ugly significance to tar all “unbelievers, hypocrites, heretics, pagans, and demons,” Jensen writes. So does the Wicked Witch of the West’s iconic chapeau reflect an ancient association between black magic and the Chosen People?”

The second plausible explanation is that it comes from anti-Quaker bigotry from colonial America. I think that 1215 came BEFORE colonial America so….