10/04/2022
REAL ESTATE FUN FACTS: 👻 🍁 As we head into October, the spooky season is upon us. Here’s a fun witchy tidbit!
A Witch Window is a window placed in the gable-end wall of a house and rotated approximately 45 degrees leaving it slanted diagonally.
The name "witch window" comes from an old superstition that witches can not fly through a window if it's tilted. Therefore, if you had a house with a witch's window, you could live without fear that a witch could soar into the room on a broomstick at any moment.
The windows are also known as coffin windows, although it is unclear if the name stuck because this is how they removed the bodies of the deceased to avoid steep staircase mishaps, or because the window itself has a coffin-like shape.
A few other names for these quirky windows are Vermont Windows, Sideways Windows or Lazy Windows for their orientation, but Witch Window is by far the most common term used today.
Witch windows are found almost exclusively in or near the state of Vermont (US), generally in the central and northern parts of the state.
