However, this reasoning seems suspect, as Vermont is not as hot as many other locations, where the windows are not ubiquitous. If heat escape were the goal, diagonal windows could be placed in other walls as well. The slanted orientation of the window can complicate the placement of the siding (such as clapboards) on the wall in which the window is hung, because if the siding is horizontal, it will meet the window frame at an acute angle, complicating both the cutting of the siding and the waterproofing of the frame-siding joint. One solution is to orient all of the siding on the wall so that it is parallel with the window frame. In popular culture On a Vermont Witch's Window Trail is a coffee table book about witch windows and their use in Vermont architecture. The book is described as "[a] pictorial guide to a unique and whimsical feature of Vermont architecture." The Weird Window Brewing company, based in South Burlington, Vermont, was named for witch windows. One of the windows is depicted in the brewery's logo. See also Witches' stones Fortochka Vernacular architecture References Further reading Herbert Wheaton Congdon, Old Vermont Houses: 1763-1850, 1940 (reprinted 1968, Noone House, Peterborough, N.H.). David G. De Long, Helen Searing, and Robert A.M. Stern, eds., American Architecture: Innovation and Tradition, Rizzoli, New York, 1986. Thomas C. Hubka, Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England, University Press of New England, Hanover, N.H., 1984. Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, A Guide to Vermont Architecture, reprinted 1996, Montpelier, Vermont. External links Discussion of installing a Vermont window in an existing wall Architectural elements Windows Vernacular architecture in Vermont Superstitions of the United States American witchcraft