So her broom has a gravity in the direction of the arrow. Justified Trope in that Medusa can affect the gravity of anything with her arrows. In Soul Eater, we first see Medusa riding a broom.
In the manga, Urd's broomstick is so jazzed up with magic, it is sentient.The opening credits of the Ah! My Goddess OVAs from the 1990s briefly show Belldandy on a broomstick, followed by Skuld riding a vaguely broom-shaped flying machine, and finally (in a subversion of a subversion) Urd riding a cannister vacuum with the hose draped around her like a feather boa.Yue's artifact includes a flying broom, and Ariadne Academy has classes of broom-riding.In Mahou Sensei Negima, several minor magical characters have brooms, and Negi uses a staff that's functionally the same.Humorously, Majorika flew by using a dustpan. Ojamajo Doremi has a button on the girls' taps in the first two seasons that summoned their brooms, but the cutscene is skipped in Motto and Dokkan.Compare Sky Surfing, in which various flying objects are ridden on while standing.Įxamples of Flying Broomstick include: Anime and Manga
Not to be confused with the Magic Carpet, which is also a flying object but has unrelated origins and applications.įor the Speculative Fiction version see Rocket Ride. This page (warning: NSFW) not only mentions an example from 1923, but calls it a trope. Upright vacuum cleaners are a modern subversion of the broom idea. You would crash more than on a motorcycle, and would then fall from very high up. This is Awesome but Impractical, as brooms weren't designed to be ridden upon. Today's depictions most often put the head in the back, for sake of an aerodynamic appearance (and for similarity with an exhaust pipe or jet engine).
In the original woodcuts, they've got the head or brush part in front, logical enough since the original witch's broom was a staff with a carved phallic end and the brush was tied on as a disguise. Some even use them as weapons.Īccording to The Other Wiki the idea of witches riding on brooms goes back to at least 1453, making this Older Than Steam. Brooms are the traditional flying mount of wizards and witches.
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