what is a witches pot called

A witches pot is commonly referred to as a cauldron. A cauldron is a large metal pot or kettle for cooking and/or boiling over an open fire, with a large mouth and often with an arc-shaped hanger. Traditionally, it was made from cast iron and rests on three legs. Although the cauldron has largely fallen out of use in the industrialized world as a cooking vessel, a more common association in Western culture is its use in witchcraft. In fiction, witches often prepare their potions in a cauldron. In modern Wicca and some other forms of neopagan or pagan belief systems, the cauldron is still used in magical practices. It can be placed in a sacred or ritual circle and used to burn items during a ritual, to hold the ingredients necessary for a spell or incantation, for scrying in water, as a container for making brews and potions, or to provide a vessel in which transmutation, germination, and transformations may occur. Some substitutions for the witch’s cauldron in modern times include any pot used on the stove or in the oven, such as a stockpot or a cast iron dutch oven.