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The Witches

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The Witches	comment	The Witches is a 1983 Roald Dahl book starting with an introductory chapter on the subject of Witches written in third person (presumably narrated by Dahl himself), but switches to first person for the rest of the story as the tale is taken up by an unnamed boy. He tells the story of how, after the death of his parents, he moves in with his Norwegian Grandmother who was once a great Witch hunter; she regales him with tales of Witches and their victims and how to tell the difference between a human woman and a Witch. They then are sent, on Doctor's orders, a British seaside holiday, as his Grandmother is too ill to return to Norway.It is at a seaside hotel that the boy is trapped at the annual British Witch meeting and meets the hideous (but disguised) Grand High Witch. It is at this meeting he and another boy (Bruno Jenkins) are turned into talking mice by a magic potion. After escaping and returning to his Grandmother they hatch a plan to kill all the Witches in England and the Grand High Witch. With great courage he manages to spike the soup the Witches are eating (having posed as the phony child protection agency the RSPCC, and getting special treatment from the Hotel) with their own mouse potion which leads to them being killed (in the form of mice, obviously) by the Hotel Staff.Afterwards, the boy and his grandmother find a possible lead to the locations of every known witch, and decide to use this knowledge (and the formula for the mouse potion) to spend the rest of their lives hunting down as many witches as they can.The Witches, in a case of Our Monsters Are Different, are a specific species of demon and aren't human at all. They seemingly exist to hate children, and plan to destroy all the children in England in one fell swoop. They don't particularly kill adults... but if one dies anyway? "Vell then too bad for ze grown-up."They have certain "tells" which a person can use, if they are eagle eyed and perceptive to spy a Witch: All Witches are female. (There are other demonic creatures who are always male, but this book isn't about them.) All Witches have huge cat-like claws which they hide with gloves. All Witches are bald but wear wigs in public, developing wig rash from the coarse underside of their wigs. All Witches have very large, fluted nostrils and a highly developed sense of smell in order to sniff out children. Children smell like dog's droppings to them; if you don't wash very often, you can block the smell. This smell fades when you get older — presumably during puberty. All Witches have strange colour-changing pupils. If you get a chance to look at them long enough, you may see fire and ice dance in the center. All Witches have squared-off feet without toes; they squeeze their feet into pumps and high heels to conceal this, even though it causes them great discomfort. All Witches have blue saliva. If a woman has a faint bluish tint to her teeth, she may be a Witch.Adaptations include: The Witches (1990): A film starring Anjelica Huston, directed by Nicolas Roeg and produced by Jim Henson. The Witches (2007-2008): A radio dramatisation with Margaret Tyzack as the Grandmother, Toby Jones as the Narrator, Ryan Watson as the Boy, Jordan Clarke as Bruno and Amanda Laurence as the Grand High Witch. The Witches (2008): A Norwegian children's opera composed by Marcus Paus. The Witches: The Graphic Novel (2020): A Comic-Book Adaptation with art by PÃ©nÃ©lope Bagieu published by Gallimard with Scholastic publishing the English version. The Witches (2020): A film directed and co-written by Robert Zemeckis and featuring Anne Hathaway as the Grand High Witch, it premiered on HBO Max. The Witches (2023): A stage musical adaptation, with music and lyrics by Dave Malloy.
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The Witches / int_1570b173	type	Short-Lived Organism
The Witches / int_1570b173	comment	Short-Lived Organism: When the hero is turned into a mouse, he asks his grandmother how long a mouse lives. She reluctantly tells him that an ordinary mouse only lives about three years, but that, as he is a human transformed into a mouse, he will live about nine years. To his grandmother's surprise, he is delighted by this news, as he does not want to outlive her.
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The Witches / int_182f59f9	type	On One Condition
The Witches / int_182f59f9	comment	On One Condition: After the death of the hero's parents, the grandmother promises him that they will live in Norway. However, the parents' will stipulates that he must return to England and be educated there, and so they do. They do, however, return to Norway when he has been transformed into a mouse.
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The Witches / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
The Witches / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Due to his terror, the boy miscounts the witches as two hundred. When Grandma later counts them at dinner, she says there are eighty-four (with the narrator confirming that it was previously eighty-five).
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The Witches / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
The Witches / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: This is intentional on the plot point of children secreting "stink waves"; supposedly some kind of hormone that smells like raspberries and cream to a human but dog poop to a witch. No such hormone actually exists; this was just added to give the witches a reason for hating human children. After turning into a mouse, the main character develops a distaste for sugary foods. In real life, mice love sugary foods.
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The Witches / int_19a5d773	type	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!
The Witches / int_19a5d773	comment	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: The early chapters of the book hammer in that witches are difficult to detect because they are very good at blending in with the general population; while they do have some physical tells, they're either easily concealed or difficult to spot unless you're close enough to them as to be in danger.
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The Witches / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
The Witches / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: The Witches seem married to this. Between killing off their own steadily dwindling species for minor slights to killing kids in highly unusual and public ways, it's surprising that they're still alive.
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The Witches / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
The Witches / int_1d18887f	comment	And then, of course, the boy and his grandmother plan the same to the witches themselves. (Pay Evil unto Evil?)
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The Witches / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Witches / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: After one witch exclaims her astonishment at the scale of the Grand High Witch's plan, she burns her alive with her eye beams...and threatens to do the same with her other followers if they don't fall in line.
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The Witches / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
The Witches / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Bruno fails to notice he's turned into a mouse until the protagonist points it out to him.
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The Witches / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Witches / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: One of the stories of the protagonist's grandmother tells him involves a boy who was turned to stone. His parents subsequently use him as an umbrella stand.
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The Witches / int_225d8ff9	type	Ambiguously Human
The Witches / int_225d8ff9	comment	Ambiguously Human: At one point, a boy sees a woman who he suspects to be a witch, because she wanted to show him her pet snake and was wearing gloves (which all witches wear). Then again, he never sees her again, not even during a meeting of all English witches, and it was winter at the time.
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The Witches / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Witches / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The boy's obsession with training his mice for the circus. It allows him to navigate the restaurant kitchen and pour potion into the witches' soup when he is changed into a mouse. The bottles of prepared mouse-making formula that the Grand High Witch whipped up for the elderly witches. The boy manages to steal one from her bedroom to put into their soup.
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The Witches / int_236846ce	type	Too Smart for Strangers
The Witches / int_236846ce	comment	Too Smart for Strangers: A number of children the witches dispose of certainly weren't, accepting presents from them or going with them to unknown locations, which led to their demises.
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The Witches / int_25c83363	type	Bald Mystic
The Witches / int_25c83363	comment	Bald Mystic: Baldness is one of the tells of the titular evil witches, who wear wigs to pass as human. The narrator is disgusted when his grandmother tells him this because there's "something indecent" about a bald woman.
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The Witches / int_2673425b	type	Kid Hero
The Witches / int_2673425b	comment	Kid Hero: The young protagonist, who eventually wipes out all the witches in England in one fell swoop.
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The Witches / int_2677b1dc	type	Door Slam of Rage
The Witches / int_2677b1dc	comment	Door Slam of Rage: When the grandmother is talking to the Grand High Witch who is on her balcony, she casually asks the Grand High Witch if she has children. The Grand High Witch replies furiously "I do not!", before storming out of the balcony, slamming the door behind her, unknowingly trapping the hero in the bedroom.
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The Witches / int_269c2c35	type	TechMarchesOn
The Witches / int_269c2c35	comment	Tech Marches On: Grandma claims that witches use their spit like ink and lick old-fashioned pen nibs. When the boy eavesdrops on the witches in the hotel, GHW orders them to get out pencils and paper.
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The Witches / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
The Witches / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: The Witches typically disguise themselves so that they can trick children into their clutches. The boy at first mistakes them for being part of the Royal Society to Prevent Cruelty to Children and initially hopes they can talk at his school.
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The Witches / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
The Witches / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: The suggested fate of Bruno. When the grandmother wonders aloud what happened to Bruno, the narrator theorizes that Bruno's parents didn't want a mouse for a son and had the Hotel Concierge drown him in the fire bucket. This is never confirmed, but his Grandmother sadly admits that he's probably correct and sympathizes for Bruno.
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The Witches / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
The Witches / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: Every witch is completely bald, and must wear itchy wigs that give them serious scalp rashes. Apparently they've never heard of skullcaps or moisturizing creams.
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The Witches / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
The Witches / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: The boy's parents die by car crash.
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The Witches / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Witches / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: The Grand High Witch is feared by all. Even the other witches are terrified of her.
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The Witches / int_2b93f2de	type	Dramatically Delayed Drug
The Witches / int_2b93f2de	comment	Dramatically Delayed Drug: This is the premise of the Grand High Witch's plan to wipe out all the children of England in one stroke: chocolates will be spiked with her Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker, and then sold to kids who will eat it one day but won't feel the effects until nine o' clock the following morning, when they arrive at school - where they'll be killed as ordinary household pests by oblivious adults. As such, nobody will suspect that the chocolate was the cause, and no suspicion will fall on the witches running the sweet shops. The same applies to Bruno Jenkins, the first victim of the potion: the Grand High Witch gave him chocolate spiked with Formula 86 the previous day and invites him to the meeting of the witches the following afternoon so they can witness him transform on stage. It's timed so perfectly that Bruno arrives just as the Grand High Witch explains this and barely has enough time to demand to know what's going on before the transformation kicks off. Subverted in the case of the protagonist; overdoses of Formula 86 result in the delay mechanism failing and the potion working immediately, as our hero discovers when he's caught eavesdropping, captured, and forced to swallow an entire bottle of the stuff, causing him to begin transforming in a matter of seconds. In the climax, the witches end up on the receiving end of the same treatment when the protagonist spikes their soup with Formula 86, causing them to transform within seconds of eating it.
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The Witches / int_2c18a23c	type	Needlework Is for Old People
The Witches / int_2c18a23c	comment	Needlework Is for Old People: Exploited. The grandma knits and uses her knitting to lower the boy in his mouse form down to the balcony.
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The Witches / int_3441859b	type	Rank Scales with Asskicking
The Witches / int_3441859b	comment	Rank Scales with Asskicking: The Grand High Witch incinerates a witch who dares to question her orders.
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The Witches / int_34889673	type	Gender Flip
The Witches / int_34889673	comment	Gender Flip: Bruno Jenkins is a girl in this version. Her first name is not revealed, but her last name is still Jenkins.
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The Witches / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Witches / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: The incineration scene, which happened because the Grand High Witch took lethal exception to one poor witch's reservations about getting rid of all of the children. Bad Boss indeed. Also the hotel maid who is frightened by the hero's pet mice. When an arrangement is made that he is allowed to keep his mice in the hotel as long as they stay in the cage, she keeps on trying to catch him with the mice out of the cage, telling him that the first mouse to break this rule will be drowned in a bucket of water.
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The Witches / int_36eea50b	type	Drowning Unwanted Pets
The Witches / int_36eea50b	comment	Drowning Unwanted Pets: This fate is used as a threat when a hotel maid discovers the hero boy's pet mice. The manager orders him to keep the mice in the cage, and the maid keeps trying to catch him with the mice out, telling him that the first mouse to break the rule will be drowned. Later, when Bruno is turned into a mouse, and is given back to his horrified parents, the hero and his grandmother wonder sadly whether Bruno suffered this fate.
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The Witches / int_37d94ed9	type	Agony of the Feet
The Witches / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: Thanks to their square, toe-less feet, witches are caused constant pain while walking around in heels and similar shoes, which they wear to blend in among normal humans.
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The Witches / int_39128678	type	Hand in the Hole
The Witches / int_39128678	comment	Hand in the Hole: This happens accidentally to the hotel maid. When the hero is turned into a mouse, he hides in a shoe when he sees the maid coming. The maid picks the shoe up, and puts her hand inside; and the hero instinctively bites her, causing the maid to scream and drop the shoe.
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The Witches / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Witches / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: From the beginning, we already know that the narrator will A.) encounter witches, B.) survive, but C.) end up looking peculiar (though it's not revealed how specifically he changes until later on).
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The Witches / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Witches / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: We never learn why Grandma is missing a thumb, though the book implies it involved Witches doing something horribly traumatic to her during her childhood.
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The Witches / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Witches / int_3cb1d38d	comment	The incineration scene, which happened because the Grand High Witch took lethal exception to one poor witch's reservations about getting rid of all of the children. Bad Boss indeed.
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The Witches / int_3cd3a0f1	type	Femme Fatalons
The Witches / int_3cd3a0f1	comment	Femme Fatalons: All witches have long sharp nails.
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The Witches / int_3e2d68db	type	Menacing Mask
The Witches / int_3e2d68db	comment	Menacing Mask: An inverted example. The Grand High Witch wears a mask to disguise herself as a pretty young lady and to hide her extremely ugly real face.
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The Witches / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Witches / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Zigzagged with the grandmother. She dutifully respects the wishes of the hero's dead parents by taking him to England to be educated, and grudgingly obeys the doctor's orders not to travel to Norway, just after her treatment for pneumonia. However, she proves that she is extremely cunning and devious about saying things to people to anger them, or to get what she wants, as follows: When the hotel manager forbids the hero to keep pet mice in his room, the grandmother relentlessly tells the manager that she has seen rats in his hotel, and that her food tasted ratty, to persuade him to allow it. When the hero (in mouse form) is searching the Grand High Witch's room, the grandmother chats to the Grand High Witch on her balcony. She casually asks the Grand High Witch if she has any children, which backfires and causes her to storm furiously into the room and slam the door behind her, trapping the hero inside. After Mr and Mrs Jenkins have refused to believe that Bruno has been turned into a mouse, Mr Jenkins later confronts the grandmother about Bruno being missing. She calmly shows Bruno to poor Mr Jenkins, and then points out the witch who did it, to get Mr Jenkins into trouble. To find out the location of the Grand High Witch's secret headquarters, she calls the police chief in England, pretending to be the chief of police for the whole of Norway, saying that she can easily imitate a man's voice. It seems to be a forgone conclusion that this would work, saying the one policeman will always help another policeman, and indeed that the police chief was honoured to receive a call from the police chief in Norway.
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The Witches / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Witches / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The main protagonist must remain a mouse for the rest of his life, since there is no cure for the Grand High Witch's potion. The protagonist's grandmother predicts that, since he is a magical-enhanced mouse-person, his lifespan may be longer than that of an ordinary mouse—perhaps as long as nine years. However, they are comforted that this means they have roughly the same amount of time to live, meaning that they will never be without each other. They also decide to use their remaining years to get rid of all the witches in the world.
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The Witches / int_41523129	type	Resized Vocals
The Witches / int_41523129	comment	Resized Vocals: Averted and commented on. When the hero and Bruno are turned into mice, the author comments that you would expect them to have squeaky voices; but actually, they talk exactly as they did before.
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The Witches / int_463084f4	type	Giving Someone the Pointer Finger
The Witches / int_463084f4	comment	Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: The Grand High Witch points "a gloved finger as sharp as a needle at the witch who had spoken", before "frying" her to death with white-hot sparks from her eyes.
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The Witches / int_47325888	type	Latex Perfection
The Witches / int_47325888	comment	Latex Perfection: This is how the Grand High Witch disguises her true form. Justified in that it's rather implied that her mask is magical.
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The Witches / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
The Witches / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: At every annual meeting of the witches, the Grand High Witch makes a point of subjecting one witch to "getting fried" (being incinerated with eye beams), so that the rest stay on their nonexistent toes. Since we're never told how more witches come about, it's amazing any are left. (The main character himself wonders this.) Just before this, the Grand High Witch begins the meeting by ranting about how the beach is full of children playing, because the "vitches of Inkland" have failed to get rid of them.
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The Witches / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The Witches / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Each witch makes it their personal hobby, to hex a child once every week. The Grand High Witch herself takes it to another level.
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The Witches / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
The Witches / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: In this setting, all witches are monstrous, sadistic child haters who essentially devote their entire lives to tormenting and killing children, and while they don't have any particular hatred of adult humans, they consider them utterly expendable. Averted with Miss Irvine in the 1990, who undergoes a Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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The Witches / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
The Witches / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: It's not said where the Grand High Witch is from but it is implied she's from Norway. She replaces her Ts with Zs and Ws with Vs. It doesn't in any way resemble a Norwegian accent, which is recognizable by more pronounced Rs and replacing Zs with Ss. Her accent resembles German more than anything else.
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The Witches / int_4b1afa0d	type	Spiteful Spit
The Witches / int_4b1afa0d	comment	Spiteful Spit: When a hotel guest complains about tough meat, the chef dishes up a replacement, and says "come on boys, give her some gravy!", before passing the plate around the kitchen, to be spat on by all the cooks and kitchen boys. Later the guest reports that the defiled meat was really tasty. Witches have blue spit, which they use to write with; but for all their cruelty to children, they never spit, as this would give them away.
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The Witches / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Witches / int_4e3d253b	comment	The Grandmother tells the boy about a child who a witch turned into a porpoise. He did seem to enjoy his new form and gave his family rides in the water while they were on vacation, but they never saw him again after they went home...
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The Witches / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
The Witches / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: Dahl hated children's homes that were actually abusive. Hence the witches posing as a children's charity.
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The Witches / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Witches / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: The Grand High Witch. She is powerful and rightly feared by her enemies and minions alike, but her plan to kill all the children in England is not a good plan at all (see Didn't Think This Through). Also, considering her supposed talent for potions and such, one would think that she would be careful enough to ensure that said potions wouldn't work on her.
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The Witches / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Witches / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Bruno's transformation. The Grand High Witch's face.
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The Witches / int_50ed1af4	type	Our Demons Are Different
The Witches / int_50ed1af4	comment	Our Demons Are Different: They're described more like succubus, only more hideous, with the casual mention of the all male ghouls race. The fact that they can't detect, let alone reverse the formula of their mouse changing soup proves that they aren't nearly as powerful as the narrator's grandmother makes them out to be.
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The Witches / int_5123df54	type	Dramatic Sit-Down
The Witches / int_5123df54	comment	Dramatic Sit-Down: The hero tells his grandmother to sit down just after she sees that he has been turned into a mouse; she duly collapses into her chair. Later, when the grandmother is about to tell Mr and Mrs Jenkins that their son has become a mouse, she tries to persuade them to go somewhere more private, and to sit down there, before she breaks this news.
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The Witches / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
The Witches / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Bruno is the requisite mean gluttonous child found so often in Dahl's works. He's not nearly as bad as the Witches themselves, but he does seem to enjoy frying ants with a magnifying glass.
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The Witches / int_5973fab5	type	Does Not Like Spam
The Witches / int_5973fab5	comment	After turning into a mouse, the main character develops a distaste for sugary foods. In real life, mice love sugary foods.
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The Witches / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Witches / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Zigzagged: Grandmamma implies that witchophiles are official government agents that rid of witches. While she failed in her prime to find GHW, she apparently hunted down a lot of them and traveled the world. Notably subverted. When one witch excitedly shouts that she's going to poison the children that buy sweets from her candy store, the Grand High Witch berates her for her stupidity, telling her that it wouldn't take long for the authorities to catch onto them if she did so. After the pair return to Norway, Grandmamma revealed that she posed as the chief of police in Norway when calling the hotel to investigate the witches who transformed into mice. The boy is incredulous that the investigator would believe a random person on the phone; Grandmamma handwaves it by saying she can imitate a man's voice well and flattered the investigator.
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The Witches / int_5aa4ec8a	type	Ambiguous Syntax
The Witches / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	Ambiguous Syntax: When the Grand High Witch proposes her plan to wipe out all the children in England, one witch exclaims, "We can't possibly wipe out all of them!" Depending on the interpretation of the sentence, she could either be unwilling to kill so many children at once, or just worried that such a plan would be outright impossible. Either way, the Grand High Witch fries her for insubordination.
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The Witches / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
The Witches / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Bruno Jenkins, who is described as always eating something. Even as a mouse, he's always more interested in whatever food is present.
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The Witches / int_61fea7c1	type	One Dose Fits All
The Witches / int_61fea7c1	comment	One Dose Fits All: The hero and his grandmother turn all the witches of England into mice, with five hundred doses of Delayed Action Mouse Maker, which they reason will give all two hundred witches a double dose at least (His grandmother later counts only eighty-four witches, meaning that each witch receives approximately six doses). In spite of knowing that giving more than one dose will make the delayed action unpredictable, the witches all turn into mice immediately and at the same time.
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The Witches / int_69391768	type	Expecting Someone Taller
The Witches / int_69391768	comment	Expecting Someone Taller: The hero wonders why all the witches of England are gazing at a tiny young lady, with a mixture of awe, reverence and fear. It does not occur to him that she is the Grand High Witch, until she literally unmasks herself.
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The Witches / int_6acebb1e	type	Mistaken for Insane
The Witches / int_6acebb1e	comment	Mistaken for Insane: Discussed. After the protagonist has turned into a mouse, his grandmother says she can't take him to a dentist or the latter would consider her crazy. She also says that when they are in the hotel dining room, she won't be able to talk to him, or people will think she is dotty and talking to herself.
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The Witches / int_6bcfbc7e	type	Fantasy Gun Control
The Witches / int_6bcfbc7e	comment	Fantasy Gun Control: The witches don't use guns or knives. Not because they can't, but because their magical methods can't be tracked by the police.
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The Witches / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
The Witches / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: Grandma and the boy conclude that they probably have eight or nine years left, and they also got rid of all the witches in England. Having been a witch-hunter in her prime, Grandma uses a lead from the Hotel Magnificent to get the Grand High Witch's address and contact information. Since the boy remembers the mouse-making formula by heart, they decide to go and get rid of the Grand High Witch's replacement, as well as any witches in the castle, using the formula to turn them into mice and cats to eat them. Then they'll use the information in the castle to track down all the witches in the world and wipe them out, one by one.
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The Witches / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
The Witches / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: Unlike Bruno, who just loafed around stuffing his face, Girl-Jenkins takes part in the main character's and his grandmother's mission to rid the world of witches.
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The Witches / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
The Witches / int_7570a10c	comment	Bond Villain Stupidity: The Grand High Witch releases Bruno and the hero after she polymorphs him. Justified in that the hotel staff are mortally afraid of mice, and the Grand High Witch assumed the boys-turned-mice would be killed on sight by the first adult they saw.
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The Witches / int_7c0bfb83	type	Obviously Evil
The Witches / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: Double subverted with the Grand High Witch. When we initially see her, she has a rather pleasant appearance...then she removes her mask.
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The Witches / int_80d74357	type	Lice Episode
The Witches / int_80d74357	comment	Lice Episode: While watching the witches (before he realises they are witches) scratching the backs of their necks, the narrator believes they have lice, and describes in passing a boy at school who was made to dip his whole head in turpentine, causing half his skin to come away from his scalp.
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The Witches / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
The Witches / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins are portrayed in a far more positive light than most incarnations of the story. Sure, it's implied they have a severe drinking and gambling problem, but they're far more friendly in their encounters with the grandmother and are willing to fully accept their daughter as a mouse now.
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The Witches / int_82b78473	type	Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass
The Witches / int_82b78473	comment	Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass: Using a magnifying glass to kill ants is listed as one Bruno's misdeeds.
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The Witches / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
The Witches / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: The titular witches, with their bald rashed heads, nasty claws, and square toeless feet being only hints on the outside at whatever makes them tick on the inside.
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The Witches / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Witches / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Literally! We never find out what happens to Bruno, now in mouse-form, after he is returned to his parents, one of whom is scared of mice, and who keep a pet cat, although the hero speculates that he may have been drowned by the hotel porter. Likewise, after the narrator's pet mice William and Mary are kicked off the Ballroom stage by the Grand High Witch, we don't find out what happens to them as the narrator and his Grandmamma leave the hotel very quickly following the transformation of the witches, without even taking their luggage. The fate of the frogs, assumed to be transformed children, under the Grand High Witch's bed is also unknown.
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The Witches / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
The Witches / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: The Grand High Witch of All The World is thought by most humans to be a kind woman who gives lots of money to charity. In truth, she's anything but.
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The Witches / int_8871bbd8	type	Eye Beams
The Witches / int_8871bbd8	comment	Eye Beams: The Grand High Witch has this power, which she uses to disintegrate (or, as the witches put it, "fry") people. She makes a point of frying at least one witch during every Annual Meeting, to make sure the others don't slack off.
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The Witches / int_88dee3b3	type	Talks Like a Simile
The Witches / int_88dee3b3	comment	Talks Like a Simile: Several characters react "as if spikes/skewers/a hatpin had been stuck deep into their bottoms".
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The Witches / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
The Witches / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: The Grand High Witch's plan in spades, to get rid of all the children in England. The boy even lampshades this; after he's changed into a mouse, he can still talk and communicate like a human. GHW assumes that the transformed children will be stupid enough to not cry for help or to go to mousetraps for the cheese, and that the adults wouldn't figure out that the children had turned into mice. In fact, he's able to undo her plan because not only can he still talk to his grandmother, and they form a plan of counterattack, but also because he still is smart enough to avoid mousetraps.
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The Witches / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Witches / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The Grand High Witch frequently 'fries' her minions (it is suggested that she fries at least one witch at each meeting to remind the others what she is capable of). Given that they're evil, child-killing witches, it's hard to feel sympathy for them.
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The Witches / int_8f0c88f	type	Invincible Villain
The Witches / int_8f0c88f	comment	Invincible Villain: In-universe, the hero's grandmother sees the witches this way, mainly due to their leader. Fortunately, they are not, as the Grand High Witch kills them regularly, which makes one wonder why are any left, and especially when they fall for their scheme.
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The Witches / int_8fa43c7c	type	Nursery Rhyme
The Witches / int_8fa43c7c	comment	A reference to a Nursery Rhyme:
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The Witches / int_8fcb5843	type	The Hunter Becomes the Hunted
The Witches / int_8fcb5843	comment	The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: There are witch hunters in the world, who seek to root out and destroy witches wherever they find them, and the narrator's grandmother in her younger years was one of the very best.
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The Witches / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
The Witches / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: The Grand High Witch is turned into a mouse and is then killed by the hotel staff, something she intended for all adults to do to their children.
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The Witches / int_9203bf6	type	Arc Number
The Witches / int_9203bf6	comment	Arc Number: Grandma is revealed near the end of the book to be 86 years old, corresponding to Formula 86, the name of the Grand High Witch's latest potion.
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The Witches / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Witches / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: The witches. Especially in the way they lure and catch children, as the Grand High Witch demonstrates with luring Bruno into the ballroom with the promise of six bars of chocolate.
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The Witches / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
The Witches / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: The origin of the witches is never explained. Neither are their methods of reproduction, but it can be assumed they are replenishing their numbers somehow since the Grand High Witch fries at least one every meeting. The fact that they're all different ages, with some of them appearing to be quite young, also supports this.
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The Witches / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Witches / int_970c790a	comment	This is the premise of the Grand High Witch's plan to wipe out all the children of England in one stroke: chocolates will be spiked with her Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker, and then sold to kids who will eat it one day but won't feel the effects until nine o' clock the following morning, when they arrive at school - where they'll be killed as ordinary household pests by oblivious adults. As such, nobody will suspect that the chocolate was the cause, and no suspicion will fall on the witches running the sweet shops.
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The Witches / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
The Witches / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: During the Grand High Witch's explanation of her plan to wipe out all the children in England, she tells her audience that "money is not a problem to us witches as you know very well" because she prints her own money for them. This is done to remind the audience that the Grand High Witch has a money-printing machine after it was initially brought up by the protagonist's Grandmama a few chapters earlier.
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The Witches / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
The Witches / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: That one witch who got "fried" by the Grand High Witch's Eye Beams. Not to mention the witch who gets turned into a mouse and is stepped on by the Grand High Witch herself.
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The Witches / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
The Witches / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: The Grand High Witch and the British witches, child-haters extraordinaire, meet their end at the hands (paws?) of a child they turned into a mouse by being turned into mice and then being killed by adults, the very fate they planned for the children of Britain.
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The Witches / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Witches / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: One of the witches asks the Grand High Witch what would happen if a grownup were to swallow Formula 86; the latter simply scoffs, "Then that's just too bad for the grownup!" At the end, we actually do see a group of grownups fall victim to the potion: the witches themselves.
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The Witches / int_9f50dbe6	type	Infinite Supplies
The Witches / int_9f50dbe6	comment	Infinite Supplies: Grandmamma mentions rumors that the Grand High Witch has a machine that can produce any type of existing currency in the world. It turns out to be true.
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The Witches / int_a5adbbe7	type	Unreliable Expositor
The Witches / int_a5adbbe7	comment	Unreliable Expositor: Grandma isn't completely accurate about her witch information; it's justified in that witches are secretive and most of Grandma's information is secondhand, and she's in her eighties with her memory fading. The boy calls her out for saying the five children who disappeared were actually four, since Birgit turned into a chicken and lived with her family for years.
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The Witches / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Witches / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: According to the narrator, witches never get caught because they use magic to cover their tracks, so they can get away with killing children in disturbing ways. By the books' end, it looks like they'll all get what's coming to them, via mouse transformation soup.
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The Witches / int_a7acd9aa	type	ChekhovsLecture
The Witches / int_a7acd9aa	comment	Chekhov's Lecture: The stories that Grandma tells the boy about witches, as well as how to identify them, keep him alive if not human by the end of the book.
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The Witches / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Witches / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: In the beginning of the book, when the grandmother is telling the narrator stories that she's heard about children abducted by witches, one of the stories is about a girl that appeared in a painting in her home. According to the grandmother, the painting changed constantly, from the girl being in the farmhouse to feeding ducks in the lake. She even grew up in the painting. And it's implied that she also died in the painting. The fact that her position in the painting changed means that the girl was probably conscious throughout her lifetime in it. There's also the boy who was turned to stone. His parents used him as an umbrella stand. And the three toads at the Grand High Witch's hotel room, implied to be cursed children, too. They are fed to seagulls.
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The Witches / int_a8d9ac65	type	Mage Species
The Witches / int_a8d9ac65	comment	Mage Species: They're specifically called a group of all female demons.
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The Witches / int_a8ea514e	type	Oblivious Transformation
The Witches / int_a8ea514e	comment	Oblivious Transformation: Bruno does not realise that he has been turned into a mouse, until the narrator points it out to him; and even then he is incredulous, until he sees his own paws.
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The Witches / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
The Witches / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Grandma mentions that in Norway it's quite normal for parents to lose their children to witches, and they haven't been able to form a countermeasure against it except to warn their boys and girls to stay away from women with gloves and blue spit. Bruno's father doesn't realize that his son goes missing in a hotel and assumes that the old woman that claimed his son was a mouse was playing a prank on him. The Grand High Witch's plan relies on the teachers seeing their students turn into mice and not realizing what happened, especially since the kids can still talk. This ends up playing out in the hotel's dining room, when everyone in the hotel is more focused about getting rid of the mice then the fact that nearly a hundred women transformed.
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The Witches / int_a969c74a	type	Final Solution
The Witches / int_a969c74a	comment	Final Solution: The Grand High Witch plots the genocide of the children in England. And then, of course, the boy and his grandmother plan the same to the witches themselves. (Pay Evil unto Evil?)
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The Witches / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Witches / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: When the little boy realizes that he is hidden in the back of a room with every single witch in Britain.
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The Witches / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
The Witches / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: We don't know much why all the witches want to kill all children outside the fact that they smell like dog droppings.
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The Witches / int_b00a7c5e	type	Robe and Wizard Hat
The Witches / int_b00a7c5e	comment	Robe and Wizard Hat: Subverted in the very first line of the book: "In fairy tales, witches always wear silly black hats and cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks." This is before it goes on to say, "but this this is not a fairy tale: this is about REAL witches."
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The Witches / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Witches / int_b1346878	comment	Witches usually kill children by feeding them potions that slowly give them a Fate Worse than Death. Most examples of witch killings show a kid accepting a gift from a nice old lady. The lesson seems to be "Don't accept stuff from strangers, it might kill you".
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The Witches / int_b41c411e	type	Toilet Humour
The Witches / int_b41c411e	comment	Toilet Humour: The witches hate children because, to them, children smell like dog droppings. The witches shout "Poo!" repeatedly during their meeting at the thought of the smell of children.
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The Witches / int_b4642fb7	type	No Animals Allowed
The Witches / int_b4642fb7	comment	No Animals Allowed: The hero takes his pet mice to the Hotel Magnificent, where they are discovered by a maid. The manager tells the boy and his grandmother that mice are not allowed in the hotel; the grandmother tells the manager that his rotten hotel is full of rats anyway, and threatens to contact the public health authorities. The manager compromises by allowing the mice as long as they stay in their cage. The maid tells the boy that the first mouse to break this rule will be drowned in a bucket of water.
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The Witches / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Witches / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The witches' front organization is the fictional Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Dahl was extremely annoyed at foundations that claimed to prevent cruelty to children but effectively did nothing to stop it, namely the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
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The Witches / int_b7b1aa73	type	And Then What?
The Witches / int_b7b1aa73	comment	And Then What?: After the Grand High Witch details her plan and asks if there are questions, a witch asks what happens if a grownup rather than a child eats the cursed chocolate. GHW only says it's too bad for the grownup. While Grandma and the boy discuss how to get rid of the replacement Grand High Witch and her servants, the boy brings up that a mouse-witch would be more dangerous than a regular witch because they could get anywhere. They decide to fill the castle with cats, keeping the boy-mouse out of harm's way, until all the witches are eaten.
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The Witches / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
The Witches / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Forced Transformation: Both the protagonist and Bruno are turned into mice by the witches. The Grandmother tells the boy about a child who a witch turned into a porpoise. He did seem to enjoy his new form and gave his family rides in the water while they were on vacation, but they never saw him again after they went home... The Grandmother also tells stories about children who get turned into fleas, slugs, hot dogs, pheasants, and (in one case) a chicken.
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The Witches / int_b9983090	type	The Transmogrifier
The Witches / int_b9983090	comment	The Transmogrifier: Witches are capable of many magical feats, but their preferred one involves transforming their victims in some way. Part of this is due to the need for secrecy: if they simply killed children, it'd draw too much attention, while transforming them would make it both untraceable and impossible to admit to. Among other things, they have turned children into chickens, statues, porpoises, even characters in a painting, and American witches are supposedly known for turning kids into hot dogs. And of course, the Grand High Witch's Evil Plan is to turn England's children into mice... though she's more than capable of frying people to death with her magic - as one unfortunate witch finds out.
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The Witches / int_b9cb52d3	type	Taunting the Transformed
The Witches / int_b9cb52d3	comment	Taunting the Transformed: While exploring the Grand High Witch's hotel room, the protagonist finds a trio of frogs hiding under the bed, and he remarks that they are almost certainly more transformed children. When the Grand High Witch returns to her room and finds them, narrowly overlooking the protagonist in the process, she cooingly addresses them as "my little froggies", taunting them with the knowledge that she's going to throw them out the window to their deaths and let the seagulls have them for breakfast.
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The Witches / int_bbcdd673	type	One-Gender Race
The Witches / int_bbcdd673	comment	One-Gender Race: Witches are all women; Dahl mentions other all-male monster races (ghouls, barghests) but says none of the races are as evil as Witches. However, in The BFG, another race — evil Giants, all male — make children in particular their victims. It's not explained how any of these species reproduce, especially considering how much witches hate children, the only hint is a line in the book about how witches originated from the forests of Norway.
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The Witches / int_bbd9b10a	type	Phantom-Zone Picture
The Witches / int_bbd9b10a	comment	Phantom-Zone Picture: A Witch traps a girl, Solveg, in one. Also counts as a Creepy Changing Painting, as the painting ages when no one is looking.
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The Witches / int_bc03c871	type	Child Hater
The Witches / int_bc03c871	comment	Child Hater: As usual, Roald Dahl applies his favorite trope to the villains. And they're an EXTREME example. And as usual for a Dahl book, the majority of adults come off this way to at least a mild degree (see: the examples of parents who just sort of go "oh well" when the witches do horrible things to their offspring).
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The Witches / int_bd817b34	type	Attack the Tail
The Witches / int_bd817b34	comment	Attack the Tail: When the hero is turned into a mouse and carries out his mission in the kitchen, a cook slices off the end of his tail when he is using it to move about.
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The Witches / int_bee8baee	type	Faint in Shock
The Witches / int_bee8baee	comment	Faint in Shock: The boy (quite understandably) collapses when he realises he's trapped in a room full of women who would gladly do horrible things to him if they find him. He's not wrong.
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The Witches / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Witches / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: A reference to a Nursery Rhyme: When describing how English witches often turn children into creatures that grown-ups hate, such as slugs and fleas, so that the grown-ups will dispose of their own children, she tells of how some children have been turned into pheasants to be shot, in a reference to Dahl's earlier book Danny, the Champion of the World.
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The Witches / int_c949edd4	type	Magic Pants
The Witches / int_c949edd4	comment	Magic Pants: Oddly inverted, as the mouse formula causes the clothes of its victim to disappear early on in the transformation.
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The Witches / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Witches / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The protagonist is nameless and his Grandmother is just Grandmama.
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The Witches / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
The Witches / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: An endearing example in the taxi driver near the end of the story, who sees the hero in mouse form in his grandmother's hand, and is not phased at all that the mouse is her grandson.
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The Witches / int_cc247b2d	type	Unsatisfiable Customer
The Witches / int_cc247b2d	comment	Unsatisfiable Customer: In the 1990 film, Bruno's father spends most of his screen time complaining about the hotel's amenities and berating the staff. It doesn't help that he's also a scary Scot.
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The Witches / int_cde51255	type	Antagonist Title
The Witches / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: The story itself is named after its main threat, the witches.
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The Witches / int_cde96a62	type	Booked Full of Mooks
The Witches / int_cde96a62	comment	Booked Full of Mooks: While staying at a hotel with his grandmother, the protagonist stumbles upon a convention for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. He realizes after becoming trapped in the convention hall that the RSPCC is a cover story for the witches of England, who are having their yearly meeting hosted by the Grand High Witch.
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The Witches / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
The Witches / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: The first story Grandma tells, how a little girl named Ranghild disappeared. As her sister tells their mother, a woman with white gloves took Ranghild by the hand, and no one saw either again. Part in-universe, part meta-example: We never find out why Grandma is missing a thumb, only that it involved a witch: how else would she know so much about witches? Her grandson's speculation includes such lovely possibilities as having it pulled out "like a tooth" or stuck in the spout of a teakettle until it was "steamed away." With this kind of inspiration, the reader's imagination comes up with something far more terrifying than anything that could have been in the story. The fact that the Grand High Witch doesn't reveal her hands and feet, implying she's got even more to hide, and going by her her worm eaten face, it's probably even worse. The Witches themselves. We don't know how they came to exist or why they hate kids, besides that kids smell like dog poop to them.
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The Witches / int_cf48c17	type	Nightmare Face
The Witches / int_cf48c17	comment	The fact that the Grand High Witch doesn't reveal her hands and feet, implying she's got even more to hide, and going by her her worm eaten face, it's probably even worse.
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The Witches / int_cf4d770	type	Nightmare Fuel
The Witches / int_cf4d770	comment	Part in-universe, part meta-example: We never find out why Grandma is missing a thumb, only that it involved a witch: how else would she know so much about witches? Her grandson's speculation includes such lovely possibilities as having it pulled out "like a tooth" or stuck in the spout of a teakettle until it was "steamed away." With this kind of inspiration, the reader's imagination comes up with something far more terrifying than anything that could have been in the story.
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The Witches / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
The Witches / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: The hotel manager Mr Stringer is described as a bristly man in a black tail-coat.
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The Witches / int_d08049db	type	Taken for Granite
The Witches / int_d08049db	comment	Taken for Granite: A boy named Harald was turned to stone by a witch.
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The Witches / int_d080f396	type	The Napoleon
The Witches / int_d080f396	comment	The Napoleon: The Grand High Witch is described as being shorter than the other witches, even the frail old ones.
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The Witches / int_d0a09849	type	Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence
The Witches / int_d0a09849	comment	Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: The witches despise all human children, to the point that the Grand High Witch intends to cause a genocide against them. The only explanation given is that children smell horrible to witches, but it's implied to go deeper than a mere repulsive odor.
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The Witches / int_d21a93f4	type	Hand Gagging
The Witches / int_d21a93f4	comment	Hand Gagging: The hero is yelling for help when the witches have discovered him. Four of them carry him by his arms and legs, and a fifth covers his mouth with her gloved hand to stop him yelling.
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The Witches / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
The Witches / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: The grandmother is an awesome and wise former Witch Hunter who smokes cigars.
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The Witches / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Witches / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: The witches are done in by Formula 86, the same magic potion they'd planned to wipe out Britain's children with, when the boy slips it into their soup.
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The Witches / int_d7117f01	type	Angst? What Angst?
The Witches / int_d7117f01	comment	Angst? What Angst?: In-universe, Grandma claims that in Norway, parents and families are used to witches and thus don't raise a fuss when a child disappears or transforms. It's averted when she finds out her grandson has changed into a mouse, however; after she hides him and Bruno, she sits in a chair and cries for a few minutes.
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The Witches / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
The Witches / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Instead of being Norwegian-English like in the original book, the main character and Grandmamma are now Ambiguously Brown.
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The Witches / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
The Witches / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: The main character and Jenkins have a few moments of this throughout. He even gives her his phone number when he and his grandmother are leaving the hotel at the end.
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The Witches / int_dd3d1f69	type	Wicked Witch
The Witches / int_dd3d1f69	comment	Wicked Witch: For the most part, although they are quite different, as far as witches go.
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The Witches / int_df7154e0	type	Nice Mice
The Witches / int_df7154e0	comment	Nice Mice: The little boy gets a pair of mice from his grandmother as a present. Basically Foreshadowing events to come.
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The Witches / int_dfe687c9	type	Alone with the Psycho
The Witches / int_dfe687c9	comment	Alone with the Psycho: The boy freaks out when he's working on a treehouse in his backyard and a witch appears below, attempting to lure him down with a snake. He hides in the tree and stays there until it's dark and his grandmother appears, reassuring him that the witch is gone. It's then taken up to eleven when he realizes he's locked in a room with every single witch in England at the Hotel Magnificent, and the only way to evade detection is stay quiet and out of sight (he's hiding behind a screen divider) and hope his lack of washing means they won't smell him. They almost don't detect him, but a witch named Mildred smells him out just as the meeting ends and everyone is leaving. Bruno realizes too late that he's been lured into the meeting to serve as living proof that the mouse-making formula works. Even so, it doesn't hit him what happened until the other boy points out that Bruno now has a tail and fur.
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The Witches / int_e24d2d5c	type	Reptiles Are Abhorrent
The Witches / int_e24d2d5c	comment	Reptiles Are Abhorrent: The first witch the narrator meets tries to give him a snake as a present. He's smart enough not to take it.
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The Witches / int_e35a1ad4	type	Sweets of Temptation
The Witches / int_e35a1ad4	comment	Sweets of Temptation: In the prologue, the narrator warns the reader that any random woman they meet could turn out to be a witch, such as "the lady with the dazzling smile who offered you a sweet from a white paper bag in the street before lunch." The Grand High Witch's big plan to wipe out all the children in England involves all the witches opening candy shops and holding openings promising free candy to every child. The candies are dosed with a potion known as Formula 86 Delayed Action Mouse-Maker that will transform them into mice when they're at school, causing all the teachers to panic and kill them en masse.
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The Witches / int_e8760868	type	Space Whale Aesop
The Witches / int_e8760868	comment	Space Whale Aesop: Witches usually kill children by feeding them potions that slowly give them a Fate Worse than Death. Most examples of witch killings show a kid accepting a gift from a nice old lady. The lesson seems to be "Don't accept stuff from strangers, it might kill you". Witches detect children by scent and dirt and grime covers up the smell. So don't shower or wash because witches will get you.
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The Witches / int_ead6df56	type	Kaleidoscope Eyes
The Witches / int_ead6df56	comment	Kaleidoscope Eyes: The strange color-changing eyes of the Witches are described as "like fire and ice dancing together".
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The Witches / int_f00fce0e	type	Resourceful Rodent
The Witches / int_f00fce0e	comment	Resourceful Rodent: The main character is turned into a mouse by witches and he has to outsmart them so he can turn back into a human.
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The Witches / int_f08e7a13	type	Clothespin Nose Plug
The Witches / int_f08e7a13	comment	Clothespin Nose Plug: At the end of their annual meeting, the Grand High Witch reminds the witches to put cotton plugs up their noses before having their dinner, because the dining room will be full of children, who smell like dogs' droppings to witches.
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The Witches / int_f6b698ac	type	Complexity Addiction
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