Posts shared in early March 2021 claim that alternate-tread staircases are called “Witches Stairs,” allegedly built with the belief that “witches can’t climb up them.” This claim is false, as ...

According to social media posts across TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Reddit, some houses were built with a special kind of staircase to supposedly confuse "witches." For instance, on June 30, 2024, ...

Lloyd Alter is Design Editor for Treehugger and teaches Sustainable Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. Alternating tread stairs are terrific for saving space; you only put one foot on a tread at ...

Witches' stairs have alternating treads to fit in narrow spaces. The myth suggests witches' stairs warded off witches, but this is false. The design was popularized by Thomas Jefferson for small ...

Even though I’m a witch of sorts (a green-kitchen-nature-witch if we must label it), I love the idea of witch stairs. They’re wonderfully quirky, and the folklore surrounding them is quaint and ...

Whether you’re trying to save space or ward off witches, these stairs will apparently do the trick. A popular misconception has social media users apparently believing that a house for sale in ...