You know...the water-carrying broom is a nod to a great German writer...Goethe. :) The original title of the ballad is "Der Zauberlehrling", here you can find an english translation (http://www.fln.vcu.edu/goethe/zauber_e3.html), and wiki has the original text (http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Der_Zauberlehrling)...Disney stole the idea, that's all. *nods*