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In L. Frank Baum's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, what makes the Wicked Witch of the West melt away?

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Witches of fairy tale and legend 15

  • The earliest account of Morgan le Fay, written about 1150, ties her to which island? Answer: Avalon, the Isle of Apples. Source: Wikipedia: Morgan le Fay
  • Hecate, the Greek goddess linked with magic and witchcraft, is most often shown holding a pair of what? Answer: Torches. Source: Wikipedia: Hecate
  • How many eyes did Baum give the Wicked Witch of the West? Answer: One. Source: Wikipedia: Wicked Witch of the West
  • In Baum's novel of 1900, of what are the magic shoes that Dorothy is given? Answer: Silver. Source: Wikipedia: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • In Baum's novel the Wicked Witch of the West carries no broom. What does she carry in its place? Answer: An umbrella. Source: Wikipedia: Wicked Witch of the West
  • In Baum's novel, Glinda is the Good Witch of which direction? Answer: The South. Source: Wikipedia: Glinda
  • In L. Frank Baum's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, what makes the Wicked Witch of the West melt away? Answer: Water. Source: Wikipedia: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • In Slavic folklore, what does Baba Yaga do with her broom as she travels? Answer: Sweeps away her tracks. Source: Wikipedia: Baba Yaga
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Witches of fairy tale and legend, continued

  • In some tales Baba Yaga is not one figure but one of several sisters who share the name. How many sisters? Answer: Three. Source: Wikipedia: Baba Yaga
  • In the Grimms' Hansel and Gretel, what is the witch's house made of? Answer: Bread, cake and sugar. Source: Wikipedia: Hansel and Gretel
  • In the Grimms' tale Jorinde and Joringel, into what does the witch turn the maidens she catches? Answer: Birds. Source: Wikipedia: Jorinde and Joringel
  • In the Grimms' tale, what is the rapunzel that gives the girl in the tower her name? Answer: A plant in the sorceress's garden. Source: Wikipedia: Rapunzel
  • Morgan le Fay is an enchantress in the legend of which king? Answer: King Arthur. Source: Wikipedia: Morgan le Fay
  • The three witches of Shakespeare's Macbeth are much like which trio of classical mythology? Answer: The Fates. Source: Wikipedia: Three Witches
  • The witch feels Hansel's finger to see whether he has grown fat. What does he hold out to fool her? Answer: A thin bone. Source: Wikipedia: Hansel and Gretel

Hats, brooms and witch words 14

  • Before broom became the usual word, what was the sweeping tool of twigs called in English? Answer: A besom. Source: Wikipedia: Broom
  • Cauldron goes back to the Latin word caldarium. What was a caldarium? Answer: A hot bath. Source: Wikipedia: Cauldron
  • Hag is a shortening of hægtesse. What did that Old English word mean? Answer: Witch. Source: Wikipedia: Hag
  • Hex signs are folk art of the Pennsylvania Dutch. On which buildings did the paintings appear? Answer: Barns. Source: Wikipedia: Hex sign
  • In Britain a hag stone, also called a witch stone or adder stone, is a stone with what? Answer: A natural hole through it. Source: Wikipedia: Adder stone
  • In English folklore, where does the hag Jenny Greenteeth live? Answer: In rivers and ponds. Source: Wikipedia: Jenny Greenteeth
  • In which century does the spelling witch, with a t in the middle, first appear? Answer: The 16th. Source: Wikipedia: Witch (word)
  • Old English had two forms of the word witch, wicca and wicce. What set them apart? Answer: One was masculine, one feminine. Source: Wikipedia: Witch (word)
  • What does a gardener mean by a witch's broom? Answer: A dense mass of shoots on a tree. Source: Wikipedia: Witch's broom
  • What is a witch ball? Answer: A hollow glass sphere hung in a window. Source: Wikipedia: Witch ball
  • What shape is the crown of the storybook witch's hat? Answer: A cone. Source: Wikipedia: Witch hat
  • When did the name hex sign come into use for those paintings? Answer: In the 20th century. Source: Wikipedia: Hex sign
  • The witch in witch-hazel has nothing to do with magic. What did the Old English word behind it mean? Answer: Pliant or bendable. Source: Wikipedia: Witch-hazel
  • Witches' butter is a name shared by several living things. What are most of them? Answer: Jelly-like fungi. Source: Wikipedia: Witches' butter

The witch trials of Europe 13

  • Between which years did prosecutions for witchcraft in Europe reach their high point? Answer: 1560 and 1630. Source: Wikipedia: Witch trials in the early modern period
  • Britain's Witchcraft Act of 1735 turned the old law around. What did it make a crime? Answer: Claiming that anyone had magical powers. Source: Wikipedia: Witchcraft Act 1735
  • Cautio Criminalis, printed without its author's name in 1631, was a plea for those accused of witchcraft. Who wrote it? Answer: Friedrich Spee. Source: Wikipedia: Friedrich Spee
  • Historians call Alonso de Salazar Frías "the Witches' Advocate". Inside which body did he argue that the charges came mostly from dreams and fantasy? Answer: The Spanish Inquisition. Source: Wikipedia: Alonso de Salazar Frías
  • In which German city was the Malleus Maleficarum first published, in 1486? Answer: Speyer. Source: Wikipedia: Malleus Maleficarum
  • In which realm were the witch hunts of early modern Europe particularly severe? Answer: The Holy Roman Empire. Source: Wikipedia: Witch trials in the early modern period
  • Johann Weyer published one of the first thorough books against the witch trials in 1563. What was his profession? Answer: Physician. Source: Wikipedia: Johann Weyer
  • Malleus Maleficarum is the best-known old book about witchcraft. How is its title usually translated? Answer: The Hammer of Witches. Source: Wikipedia: Malleus Maleficarum
  • The North Berwick trials of 1590 were Scotland's first major witchcraft case. What on the king's voyage home with his bride set them off? Answer: Terrible storms at sea. Source: Wikipedia: North Berwick witch trials
  • The Pendle witch trials of 1612 are among the most famous in English history. In which county is Pendle Hill? Answer: Lancashire. Source: Wikipedia: Pendle witches
  • The trial of the Basque witches began in January 1609 in which Spanish city? Answer: Logroño. Source: Wikipedia: Basque witch trials
  • Which king wrote Daemonologie, a dissertation on witchcraft and necromancy, in 1597? Answer: James VI of Scotland. Source: Wikipedia: North Berwick witch trials
  • Which office did the English witch-hunter Matthew Hopkins claim to hold in the 1640s? Answer: Witchfinder General. Source: Wikipedia: Matthew Hopkins

Salem, 1692 14

  • About how many people were accused during the Salem witch trials? Answer: More than 200. Source: Wikipedia: Salem witch trials
  • The accusations began in Salem Village. Where were the trials held? Answer: In Salem Town. Source: Wikipedia: Salem witch trials
  • For what is the Salem judge Samuel Sewall remembered, besides sitting on the court? Answer: He later apologized for his part. Source: Wikipedia: Samuel Sewall
  • In 1702 the General Court of Massachusetts gave its verdict on the trials in one word. Which word? Answer: Unlawful. Source: Wikipedia: Salem witch trials
  • In which year was the last person convicted at Salem, Elizabeth Johnson Jr., officially cleared? Answer: 2022. Source: Wikipedia: Salem witch trials
  • The Salem witch trials began in February 1692. In which month of 1693 did they end? Answer: May. Source: Wikipedia: Salem witch trials
  • Tituba, an enslaved woman in the minister's household, was among the first accused at Salem. What became of her case? Answer: She was jailed for over a year but never tried. Source: Wikipedia: Tituba
  • What did the colonial legislature of Massachusetts do about the Salem convictions in 1711? Answer: It annulled them. Source: Wikipedia: Salem witch trials
  • What was Samuel Parris in Salem Village at the time of the trials? Answer: The minister. Source: Wikipedia: Samuel Parris
  • What was spectral evidence? Answer: Testimony about visions. Source: Wikipedia: Spectral evidence
  • Which governor set up the court for the Salem cases, grew unhappy with it and disbanded it after five months? Answer: William Phips. Source: Wikipedia: William Phips
  • Which kind of court heard the Salem cases in 1692? Answer: A Court of Oyer and Terminer. Source: Wikipedia: Salem witch trials
  • Which minister wrote Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits in 1692 to stop the court from using spectral evidence? Answer: Increase Mather. Source: Wikipedia: Increase Mather
  • The Witch House, a museum in Salem, was the home of Jonathan Corwin. Who was he? Answer: A judge. Source: Wikipedia: The Witch House

How this list was compiled: Written for this site; nothing was copied from another list. Questions and wrong choices are our own. Each explanation restates, in our own sentences, a fact from the English Wikipedia article named and linked beside the question (https://en.wikipedia.org, text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license), and the passage that states each fact was found in that article on October 14, 2026 before the question was kept. 40 articles are linked. The pack is the witch of folklore, fairy tale and old books, and the dated history of the trials of Europe and of Salem: who wrote what, where and when. No living religion or present-day practice is asked and nothing here speaks for any community; no film, show or game is a question, an answer or a choice; the trials are asked as dates, places, books and laws, with no count of deaths. Levels are our estimate: easy is fair for any table, medium suits a curious adult, hard will stump most tables. Each question also carries the date its article was read. Licence: own work

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What melts the Wicked Witch of the West in the book, and what did the Witchcraft Act of 1735 really forbid? This witchcraft trivia runs from fairy tales to the trials, as folklore and dated history.

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Witch trivia questions from stories and folklore

Witches of fairy tale and legend asks about the house of bread and cake, Baba Yaga's broom and the witch who carries an umbrella. Hats, brooms and witch words explains witch-hazel, hag stones and the hex signs on Pennsylvania barns.

Witch trivia questions and answers from history

The witch trials of Europe covers the book of 1486, a king's treatise and the writers who argued against the hunts. Salem, 1692 asks about the court, spectral evidence and the judge who apologized. The trials are asked as dates, places, books and laws.

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What are some easy witch trivia questions?

What melts the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's novel? What shape is the crown of a witch's hat? Morgan le Fay belongs to the legend of which king? The answers are water, a cone and King Arthur.

When were the Salem witch trials?

They ran from February 1692 to May 1693 in colonial Massachusetts, and more than 200 people were accused. In 1711 the colonial legislature annulled the convictions, and the last person convicted was officially cleared in 2022.

Where does the word witch come from?

From Old English, which had a masculine form, wicca, and a feminine one, wicce. The spelling with a t first appears in the 16th century. The witch in witch-hazel is a different word that meant pliant.

How were the answers checked?

Each was read on October 14, 2026 in the English Wikipedia article linked beside it, 40 articles in all. No living religion is asked, no film or show, and the trials carry no count of deaths.

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