The Nor-wegians know al about witches, for Norway, with its black forests and icy mountains, is where the first witches 8Ĭame from. The fact that I am stil here and able to speak to you (however peculiar I may 6 look) is due entirely to my wonderful grandmother. Things happened to me that wil probably make you scream when you read about them. From the first I escaped unharmed, but on the second occasion I was not so lucky. My Grandmother I myself had two separate encounters with witches before I was eight years old. But there are a number of little signals you can look out for, little quirky habits that al witches have in common, and if you know about these, if you remember them always, then you might just poss-ibly manage to escape from being squelched before you are very much older. Oh, if only there were a way of teling for sure whether a woman was a witch or not, then we could round them 7Īl up and put them in the meat-grinder. But- and here comes the big \"but\"- it is not impossible. 5 I am not, of course, teling you for one second that your teacher actual y is a witch. Perhaps she is smiling at the absurdity of such a sugges-tion. She might even- and this wil make you jump- she might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. She might be the lady with the dazzling smile who offered you a sweet from a white paper bag in the street before lunch. Or she might be the woman with the bright eyes who sat opposite you on the bus this morning. 6įor al you know, a witch might be living next door to you right now. Which lady is the witch? That is a difficult question, but it is one that every child must try to answer. If a tiger were able to make himself look like a large dog with a waggy tail, you would probably go up and pat him on the head. Even when you know al the secrets (you wil hear about those in a minute), you can stil never be quite sure whether it is a witch you are gazing at or just a kind lady. What makes her doubly dangerous is the fact that she doesn't look dangerous.
As far as children are concerned, a REAL WITCH is 4 easily the most dangerous of al the living crea-tures on earth. Bu neither of them is half as dangerous as a REAL WITCH. On the other hand, a ghoul is always a male. I do not wish to speak badly about women.
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No country in the world is completely free from WITCHES. Some countries have more, others have not quite so many. In England, there are probably about one hundred of them altogether. But there are stil quite enough to make you nervous. Luckily, there are not a great number of REAL WITCHES in the world today. She can make stones jump about like frogs and she can make tongues of flame go flickering across the surface of the water. Don't forget that she has magic in her fingers and devilry dancing in her blood. People who do those things get caught by the police. On the head or stick knives into them or shoot at them 3 with a pistol. A witch, you must understand, does not knock children 4 Then the witch stalks the wretched child like a hunter stalking a little bird in the forest.
Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear. Anything less than that and she becomes grumpy. She reckons on doing away with one child a week. \"Which child,\" she says to herself al day long, \"exactly which child shal I choose for my next squelching?\" A REAL WITCH gets the same pleasure from squel-ching a child as you get from eating a plateful of strawberries and thick cream. Even if she is working as a cashier in a supermarket or typing letters for a businessman or driving round in a fancy car (and she could be doing any of these things), her mind wil 2 always be plotting and scheming and churning and burning and whiz-zing and phizzing with murderous 3īloodthirsty thoughts. It is al she thinks about the whole day long. Her passion is to do away with them, one by one. A REAL WITCH spends al her time plotting to get rid of the children in her particular territory. A REAL WITCH hates children with a red-hot sizz-ling hatred that is more sizzling and red-hot than any hatred you could possibly imagine. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ORDINARY JOBS. REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women.
The most important thing you should know about REAL WITCHES is this. nihua- _ 1 A Note about Witches In fairy-tales, witches always wear sily black hats and black cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks.
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