A broom was a type of cleaning implement, with a brush and a handle. (TV: Deep Breath [+]Loading...["Deep Breath (TV story)"]) It was also associated with magic] and witchcraft. (WC: New Adventures Await! [+]Loading...["New Adventures Await! (webcast)"], PROSE: Hervoken Halloween [+]Loading...["Hervoken Halloween (short story)"], etc.)
For Halloween, SIGNET member Aoife Fitzgerald's young daughter Norah once dressed up as a witch, complete with a plastic broomstick and a toy wand. The broomstick was later genuinely, if briefly, levitated by Hervy the Hervoken, who used it to bludgeon a knife out of an attacking Aoife's hand. (PROSE: Hervoken Halloween [+]Loading...["Hervoken Halloween (short story)"])
Tosh once stole some corn, a broom and a few other things from the Third Doctor's greenhouse. (PROSE: Morphology [+]Loading...["Morphology (short story)"])
One time when the Tenth Doctor visited Earth he found it was missing. There was only a white void with a small, old house being defended by Bob Manning with a broom from dragon-like creatures. (COMIC: The House at the End of the World [+]Loading...["The House at the End of the World (comic story)"])
In Venice in 1580, Rory Williams tried to fight Francesco with a broom. (TV: The Vampires of Venice [+]Loading...["The Vampires of Venice (TV story)"])
The Twelfth Doctor used the idea of the parts of a broom being constantly replaced to explain to the Half-Face Man how it had rebuilt itself so many times it was no longer its original self. (TV: Deep Breath [+]Loading...["Deep Breath (TV story)"])
During the Twelfth Doctor's imprisonment in the Prison, Clara Oswald borrowed a broom from Danny Pink so that, with the help of Classes 2A and 2B, she could make a placard with the message "FREE THE DOCTOR". (PROSE: The Blood Cell [+]Loading...["The Blood Cell (novel)"])
Harry Potter once flew through New York City on a broom. The Wicked Witch of the West later similarly flew through the Land of Ooo with Gizmo on a broom. (WC: New Adventures Await! [+]Loading...["New Adventures Await! (webcast)"])
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The Wicked Witch of the West once flew on her broom in a room, before being knocked off when Marty McFly played his guitar nearby. (WC: Endless Awesome [+]Loading...["Endless Awesome (webcast)"])