The Witches

I looked round and I saw a hideous painted and powdered witch's face staring down at me

Oh heavens, I thought. Oh help! Oh Lord have mercy on me!

Oh, if only there were a way of telling for sure whether a woman was a witch or not, then we could round them all up and put them in the meat-grinder.

A witch is always a woman.

I do not wish to speak badly about women. Most women are lovely. But the fact remains that all witches are women.

REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ORDINARY JOBS.

That is why they are so hard to catch.

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-nihua-

No country in the world is completely free from WITCHES.

A witch is always a woman.

I do not wish to speak badly about women. Most women are lovely. But the fact remains that all witches are women. There is no such thing as a male witch

‘I shall never have a bath again,’ I said.

‘Just don't have one too often,’ my grandmother said. ‘Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child.’

It was at moments like these that I loved my grandmother more than ever.

REAL WITCH has the most amazing powers of smell. She can actually smell out a child who is standing on the other side of the street on a pitch-black night.’

‘She couldn't smell me,’ I said. ‘I've just had a bath.’

‘Oh yes she could,’ my grandmother said. ‘The cleaner you happen to be, the more smelly you are to a witch.’

‘That can't be true,’ I said.

An absolutely clean child gives off the most ghastly stench to a witch,’ my grandmother said. ‘The dirtier you are, the less you smell.’

What makes her doubly dangerous is the fact that she doesn't look dangerous