![]() ![]() The Spiveys are so terrified that they pack up and leave the house. Things appear normal until the broom's phantom-white ghost begins stalking the Spiveys' house. Minna Shaw surprisingly agrees, and the broom is burned. The boys' parents demand that the broom be burned at the stake. The broom, apparently angered, beats them and flings their dog over the forest. Shortly afterwards, two boys begin to harass it. While most of the neighbor women and children are comfortable with the broom, the men are concerned that it had been a witch's broom. She discovers that the broom is harmless, as all it does is sweep, but she teaches it how to feed the chickens, chop wood, and play the piano. Minna Shaw discovers the broom is still in her house and leaves it alone but is startled, and more than a little afraid, when it comes to life later that evening. Minna Shaw takes her in until she recovers, and when she does, the witch calls a friend to "drive" her home, leaving her own broom behind. ![]() One evening, a witch falls from her broom when it suddenly loses the ability to fly, causing the witch to crash-land in the garden near Minna Shaw's house. The story involves a widow named Minna Shaw. A film version to be directed by Sam Weisman was briefly in production in 2004. ![]() ![]() The Widow's Broom is a 1992 children's novel by the American author Chris Van Allsburg. ![]()
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