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I'm just gonna say it- witches are cool.

My little sister and I shared not only a room, but also a love for all things witchcraft from a young age.  I think it started with our obsession with Joss Wheadon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer t.v. show.  Buffy was, in fact, a vampire slayer- but her best friend Willow was a witch!  We always thought she was way cooler.

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Then Charmed came out.  They're three sisters, all names starting with the letter "P," we're three sisters, all names starting with the letter "K." We were hooked!

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Sabrina the Teenage Witch- every Friday night!

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Hell, we would even watch Bewitched on Nick at Night!

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(We watched both the black and white and color episodes)

We were pretty obsessed, but I will admit that she took it a bit further than I ever did.  In fact, she was so into it, that my mom would take her to a "witch store" a few towns over, where they actually sold crystals and incense and spell books.  (My mom is really cool like that.)

So imagine my pure joy to find out that the third installment of Ryan Murphy's super creepy series would be American Horror Story: Coven.  I can't wait to see Jessica Lange as a witch- she's gonna own it!

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While on our ghost tour in Scotland we heard a ton about witches.  (They usually come up at some point in every ghost tour, just so you're prepared.)  In the U.K., they had their fair share of witch hunts, and we learned some really interesting facts about that time.  Here are a few for your enjoyment:

-Witches were mostly women, but a few men were accused of being witches as well.

-Witches were believed to hex someone by pointing at them.  This is where the whole "pointing is rude" thing came from.

-Pretty much anyone could be accused of being a witch at any time, for any reason.  The hysteria was so insane that people wouldn't think logically about why someone was being accused of being a witch, and just believed that they were one.

-Some places burned their witches.  Others hung them.  But in many places, to find out if someone were a true witch, they would chain their hands and feet together (or in Scotland, they would nail their hands to their knees...) then toss them off into the nearest body of water.  If they floated, they were certainly a witch!  They would be fished out, and properly burned/hung.  If they sunk, well, then, they weren't a witch after all.  The townspeople would fish out the body and give the family a proper burial. As you can imagine, most of them sunk...and as for the floaters- most weren't witches.  Air would get caught under their large dresses as they were tossed into the water, and kept them afloat.

Rough, huh?

Anyway, I'm so excited for AMH: Coven, I just can't wait.  I taped it last night and plan on watching it later tonight with Indy and our favorite Halloween cat: