Ma Mère l'Oie, spinning stories by the hearth; Mother Goose, riding on the goose with her broomstick and "witch hat". Märchenmütterchen, the old mother of stories, with animal spirits around her. Fairy tale books and witch archetypes, especially broomstick flight under the moon, cauldrons, and claw-like hands.

On that "witch hat": it appears late, based on hats worn by country women in Britain, which survived in rural areas of Wales, shown here.

Another witch's hat (with lace lining) in The Adventures of Dick Whittington, 1850