Stay with me….
My wife and I were traveling, and as a joke I said, “Okay Samantha, I’m tired. I know I said no witchcraft, but just this once you can twinkle your nose and make us be there.” We started trying to twitch our noses like Samantha on Bewitched and obviously couldn’t do it. We laughed, and she said that Elizabeth Montgomery couldn’t do it either, and I argued that she could. This was the ‘60s, so CGI didn’t exist. So my wife gets on Google and looks it up, and it turns out that Elizabeth Montgomery NEVER MOVED HER NOSE, IT WAS HER UPPER LIP THE WHOLE TIME!
I didn’t believe it. It COULDN’T be true. I’ve watch almost every episode growing up, and she twitched her NOSE. We went to YouTube, and, son of a gun, It was her upper lip. EVERY TIME. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
I don’t know anything anymore.
Well tbf, twitching your upper lip does make the tip of your nose twitch as well. If you have a retroussé nose like Sam, it’s more obvious than with some other nose shapes. If you’re 3, like Tabitha, you might have to push your nose with your finger as she cutely did. And you’ll notice Endora spell-cast exclusively with her arms, as befit her dramatic nature. Sam did that too, but she knew how to channel her power through a discreet and surreptitious twitch in order to “pass” among mortals.
(Yes I have a similar nose and used to twitch along with Sam when watching as a kid)
What’s the opposite of a retroussé nose? Looking sort of like a macaw?
Edit: found it, I think. Looks like it’s called an aquiline nose. “Eagle like”.