The idea for Houston's witch paddle came from a newspaper article ... "A coven of witches on the water!?" said one. "Sign me up!" So, with a safety briefing and a light splash of oars against ...

these “witches on water” events occur as far away as Abu Dhabi, and the first may have been the Morro Bay witch paddle in California about a decade ago. Once Scheller learned about the paddles ...

One was the presence of ‘witch marks’, a mark supposed to have been put on a woman’s body by the Devil. Water was another commonly used means of determining whether women were witches ...