A very large pot or kettle, usually made of metal and used for cooking large quantities, especially in witchcraft stories.
From Old Norse 'kaldi' (cold), evolving through Old French 'chaudron.' Medieval people associated large metal pots with magic, so cauldrons became iconic in witchcraft imagery.
Cauldrons appear in almost every culture's magic stories—whether Celtic, Norse, or Greek—suggesting that something about big bubbling pots stirred ancient people's imagination about transformation and mystery!
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