Quotations

* 1997, Diana Wynne Jones, Witch Week [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0688155456&id=IROChlxeg6cC&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&sig=60X6n2mPiX5qOzn6wsBdOsI3Z4o] *: She really was a witch now. No one but a witch could fly a broomstick . * 1999 ISBN 0439136369 *: Harry ripped the parcel open and gasped as a magnificent, gleaming broomstick rolled out onto his bedspread. [...] It was a Firebolt, identical to the dream broom Harry had gone to see every day in Diagon Alley. * 2002, [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0061020613&id=mlChCK02ZcsC&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&sig=M6bZxGZ3QzBQVc05HDkwTm6J1sk] *: Greebo, hiccuping occasionally, oozed into his accustomed place among the bristles of Nanny’s broomstick . As they rose above the forest a thin plume of smoke also rose from the castle. * 2003, David Pickering, Cassell's Dictionary of Superstitions [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0304365610&id=DIk63zaZTN4C&lpg=PA90&pg=PA89&sig=CEs80mATVHl_OKLt_wCv-IybcMw] *: Most people are familiar with the age-old superstition that witches fly on broomsticks to their covens (though they were formerly also reputed to use shovels, cleft sticks, eggshells, ANIMALS and other means of flight).