A besom is one of the tools used in Wicca.

Probably she had let the besom she was using put ideas into her head.

The couple jump over the besom during the ceremony.

The besom is thought to be involved with fairies.

She grabbed up a bucket and besom and got to work.

Sam put the besom to work and Evelyn tried once more to shift that awful basket.

The elemental flashed for a moment across one besom.

The besom, or broom, is often associated with witches and witchcraft.

"Yes; I go round and round with my great besom."

It was the head of a gigantic besom.

Another sustainable gardener's tool finding a modern market is the traditional besom broom.

A broomsquire is someone who makes besom brooms for a living.

There was a flicker like green fire in his eyes, and his beard stood out stiff as a great besom.

A besom pocket is a pocket cut into a garment instead of being sewn on.

"Bring me three withes from a besom; let them be both stout and supple.

She ain't his friend much less a lady it's her girls Harry's interested in, not that bloody old besom."

"I keep a besom of prickle-withe and it's never failed me yet," said one named Sansoro.

As a tool, the besom is usually thought of as masculine in nature due to its phallic shape and symbolism.

We veered to the right, where there was a ridge of rocks, pushed to the side by that same besom of stone.

"Sometimes three to a besom.

In the little town of Roding an elderly woman is sweeping the streets with a birch-twig besom.

As a result of its construction around a central pole, the brush of the besom is rounded instead of flat.

Benjie raised a ruminant eye from his besom.

Uncle Jamie called Mother a meddling besom, and a lang-nebbit.

He had rested his palm on the bumper when loading the shepherd's crook, the sacks and the besom into the boot.