This page lists various myths and legends known of the world of Witch Hat Atelier. On the Zozah Peninsula, some of these stories as spread as oral poetry.
Tales surrounding the silverwood[edit | edit source]
Refers to several tales about the silverwood tree and how magic came to be.
Ancient poem: the tree and the star[edit | edit source]
An ancient tale who made it to modern times as a song. The poem reads:
Sail sleeping skies,
The stars like silver ships
Till rapt in branches,
Set course for world adrowse
To pass the gift of night to silverwood lips
And sink as fingers in her tousled boughs.[1]
This poem represents the silverwood tree as a loving maiden. A messenger from heaven falls in love with her and gifts her his magic, but the maiden, instead of keeping it for herself, shares magic with the human race, thus beginning the age of witches.
Silverwood legend[edit | edit source]
A silverwood tree is said to have fallen in love with a witch, offering her its blood and branches as ink and wands.[2] It is unsure if this legend, who explains the use of the silverwood in processing conjuring ink, is separate from the "tree and star" poem, or mereley a variant of the same story, given the star of that tale is also a magic user.
Zozah's Epics[edit | edit source]
Zozah's Epics are a series of legends shared by the author through three tweets of art with short captions. As lore of the land, they are referenced indirectly throughout the manga, mostly by their characters appearing in illustrative pannels explaining Zozah's history.
Please note that all translations including the titles of the poems are approximations, as we have no official translation for them.
The King of Dadah and the Witch who killed him[3][edit | edit source]
Represents the king of Dadah and a mysterious witch. To assert his might, he used magic to raise mountains into the sky, altering the landscape forever.
Song of the Princess who married the wind, handed town in the tribe of the dragon herders[4][edit | edit source]
Unclear if the second part of the title is part of the poem's story or not. This is the only poem who has not yet been referenced in the manga (as per volume 10 in writing this). The dragon she is riding in the illustration is the same species ridden by the dragonrider King of the six Monarchs, possibly implying the nature of the tribe mentioned.
Nine part epic about a witch and a decaying king[5][edit | edit source]
The characters, yet unnamed, represented in this illustration, have been used in the manga to symbolize the now illegal allegiances between witches and noble individuals.[6]
Sinsinger[edit | edit source]
This legendary bird is said to appear in the dreams of wrongdoers. It is referenced as a symbol on the caps of the Knights Moralis, as a pair of wings.[7]
Sources[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Witch Hat Atelier Manga: Chapter 47
- ↑ "The plants of Witch Hat" volume 4 bonus
- ↑ Shirahama's tweet "ダダの王と王を殺した魔法使い"
- ↑ Shirahama's tweet "竜牧民の一族に伝わる 風に嫁いだ姫君の詩"
- ↑ Shirahama's tweet "朽ちゆく王と魔法使いの九篇からなる英雄譚"
- ↑ Witch Hat Atelier Manga: Chapter 39
- ↑ "The hats of Witch Hat" volume 5 bonus