Kitchen Witch & Cottage Witch Hats

The kitchen witch began as a small homemade doll or charm, a poppet shaped like a stereotypical witch or crone, displayed in residential kitchens as a good luck charm and to ward off bad spirits. Its origin is debated between Scandinavia and Germany, and a 1599 Shropshire will already bequeaths "the witche in the kytchyn." Today the name belongs to the cook who stirs clockwise as a blessing and treats the pantry as a grimoire, while the cottage witch makes herbs, hearth and a slow simmer a year-round craft rather than a Halloween costume. These kitchen witch hats cover both. Two badges, KITCHEN WITCH and COTTAGE WITCH, name the identity, and BASIC WITCH and SOUP WITCH are market puns already printed on sweatshirts and tees. The sentence designs carry the bits: a cauldron that turns out to be a Crock-Pot, a pie crust that behaved after a hex, a label listing rosemary, intention and butter, three spells cast today that were all soup, and a cat who is the familiar. DESCENDED FROM THE WITCHES THEY COULDN'T BURN is the most copied line in the genre; historians estimate 30,000 to 60,000 witch trial deaths, most of them by hanging rather than burning, and the slogan survives as shorthand anyway. That line and the familiar line each get a second colorway. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Pick one for your own stove, or give it to the friend who calls soup a potion.