Every year parents seem to have difficulty finding children’s Halloween costumes; either they are all the same, or they are boring. Well that’s not the case the costumes I found on Costume Cauldron; they have an amazing selection for tots including anything from Witches, to Pirates, to any kind of animal imaginable and even famous movie characters like Darth Vader and Princess Leia.

I love this little witch costume in particular, it comes with full-skirted dress with attached apron and matching hat and I’m sure that any little girl will love to cast her spells wearing this beautiful gown.

Now for a little history: The witch is a central symbol of Halloween and is identified with the holiday throughout the history of Halloween. The name comes from the Saxon wicca, meaning ‘wise one’.

When setting out for a Sabbath, witches rubbed a sacred ointment onto their skin. This gave them a feeling of flying, and if they had been fasting they felt even giddier.

Some witches rode on horseback, but poor witches went on foot and carried a broom or a pole to aid in vaulting over streams; now you know why witches have been associated with brooms throughout history.

And don’t forget to teach your little witch her song:

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;

Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork and bling-worms sting,
Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon’s blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.