<P> A witch hat, in popular culture, is the style of hat characterized by a conical crown and a wide brim (like akubras and gats). </P> <P> Many woodcuts made during the Middle Ages show witches wearing a variety of different hats, such as headscarves, or witches not even having any head - wear at all and instead showing their hair being windblown . In a lot of modern art, witches are often seen bareheaded or wearing headbands with religious symbols printed on them, such as crescent moons . In religious art, priestesses of the highest power wear a headband as their crown, while the highest - power male priests wear helmets with horns or antlers . </P> <P> The origins of the witch hat as commonly displayed today is unknown, but there are several theories . One is that it might have been an exaggeration of the dunce cap or the edgeless hats the Puritans and the Welsh wore . Church despised pointy hats given that the points were often related to those of the devil's horns . The witch hat is a more brimmed version of the cone - shaped hats commonly worn by male - gendered wizards and magicians, as the hat was more brimmed for it to be female - appropriate . As of the Victorian era, fairy tales began depicting black - colored conical hats and crones as symbols of wickedness in their illustrations . Another possibility is that in Luna, a town of the Etruscan civilization, there were coins on one side depicting a goddess commonly associated with witches, named Diana, wearing a brimless, cone - shaped hat . </P> <P> This hat has been worn by the following fictional characters: </P>

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