An upturned black pointed hat holds an amber-coloured marble and a sprig of lavender on dark-green fabric.

Original artwork, not a still

Bob Bletcher

If it was 500 years ago, you'd have been burned as a witch.

— Millennium ‧ 1996

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

This is a remark about someone unusual, saying that in a harsher past they'd have been accused of witchcraft. It's a way of marking how strange or uncanny they seem, though it points as much at old fear of the unfamiliar as at the person being described.

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