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Die Liewe Heksie

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Die Liewe Heksie	comment	Die Liewe Heksie (Afrikaans for "Beloved Little Witch") was an Afrikaans work of fiction created by children's book author Verna Vels in 1961. It centres on Liewe Heksie, a rather incompetent and forgetful witch, who lives with her friends the elves in Bloemmieland ("Land of Flowers"), and whose general well-meaning ineptitude and lack of magic skills led to many funny situations. The Liewe Heksie series started off as radio stories, followed by books and stories on vinyl record. Liewe Heksie made a television debut in 1978 as an Afrikaans-language children's television programme which became a well-loved fixture of South African TV. A second series of Liewe Heksie followed in 1981, for a total of 52 television programs. The quality of the puppets, animation and sets vastly improves in the second series. The first series is available on You Tube, provided officially by the South African Broadcasting Corporation.. Not all the second series episodes are available on YouTube but a surprising number have been unofficially uploaded by fans.
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Die Liewe Heksie / int_122db6df	type	Cute Witch
Die Liewe Heksie / int_122db6df	comment	Cute Witch: Livinia herself qualifies. The illustrations in the original childrens' books make her look even cuter with blonder and better-kept hair.
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Die Liewe Heksie / int_138fe57e	type	All Witches Have Cats
Die Liewe Heksie / int_138fe57e	comment	All Witches Have Cats: confusingly, Livinia has two. There is Mattewis, the kitten/cat whose function is to be a timid little kitty who miaows a lot and is the indispensable companion to a working witch. Then there is Karel Kat, her sophisticated friend, a sort of Non-Human Sidekick, who is essentially an anthropomorphic cat who dresses smartly, drives a smart car, and flies a helicopter. Karel and Mattewis are never really seen interacting.
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Die Liewe Heksie / int_1f14978d	type	Talking Animal
Die Liewe Heksie / int_1f14978d	comment	Talking Animal: Karel Kat the gifted feline friend, and Griet the magical horse.
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Die Liewe Heksie / int_27a40541	type	Furry Confusion
Die Liewe Heksie / int_27a40541	comment	Furry Confusion: Karel can talk, drive a car, and do other human-like things, but Mattewis is mostly a normal cat.
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Die Liewe Heksie / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
Die Liewe Heksie / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: Livinia, while a bit dim, is young and appealingly featured. The friendly elves and the Fairy Queen are also attractive. The moral is that good-hearted people are visually pleasant to look at.
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Die Liewe Heksie / int_40d6724	type	Sound-to-Screen Adaptation
Die Liewe Heksie / int_40d6724	comment	Sound-to-Screen Adaptation: the show began on radio.
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Die Liewe Heksie / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
Die Liewe Heksie / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: Livinia has difficulty with long words and peoples' names. Her sophisticated friend Karel Kat has to gently correct her about his helicopter, for instance, not a mielecopter.
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Die Liewe Heksie / int_44f6517d	type	Beach Episode
Die Liewe Heksie / int_44f6517d	comment	Beach Episode: The Little Witch goes for a beach picnic with the Bloemmieland elves. Alas, while her back is turned, the evil GeleHeks kidnaps a baby elf. Livinia then has to interrupt her day at the beach to get him back. An Old-Timey Bathing Suit features. Livinia explains it's the only one she owns.
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Die Liewe Heksie / int_458251b2	type	The Wonderland
Die Liewe Heksie / int_458251b2	comment	The Wonderland: Bloemmieland.
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Die Liewe Heksie / int_4ee487f2	type	Evil Makes You Ugly
Die Liewe Heksie / int_4ee487f2	comment	Evil Makes You Ugly: the wicked Yellow Witch and the goblins of the barren and sterile Gifappeltjieland. Even their country is ugly.
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Die Liewe Heksie / int_53c3fa83	type	Granola Girl
Die Liewe Heksie / int_53c3fa83	comment	Granola Girl: Livinia has aspects of this personality verging on her being a Cloudcuckoolander.
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Die Liewe Heksie / int_605b8f40	type	Bumbling Sidekick
Die Liewe Heksie / int_605b8f40	comment	Bumbling Sidekick: two of them. The leeringly evil and totally inept pair of yellow goblins from Gifappeltjieland who serve the GeelHeks.
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Die Liewe Heksie / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Die Liewe Heksie / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Bloemmieland, the land of flowers. Gifappeltjieland, the poisoned-apple country.
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Die Liewe Heksie / int_7d7f4e4f	type	Magical Girl
Die Liewe Heksie / int_7d7f4e4f	comment	Magical Girl: Livinia doesn't appear to be very old. Especially next to her nemesis, the elderly and evil GeeleHeks.
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Die Liewe Heksie / int_84f15fc4	type	Sapient Steed
Die Liewe Heksie / int_84f15fc4	comment	Sapient Steed: Griet the magical talking horse.
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Die Liewe Heksie / int_8e4a0f15	type	Dumb Blonde
Die Liewe Heksie / int_8e4a0f15	comment	Dumb Blonde: Lavinia is young, good-natured, blonde, and not terrifically bright or quick on the uptake. The original illustrated childrens' books make her even blonder. And just as slow to grasp essentials, such as do not take away the things holding your roof in place if the weather forecast predicts a gale.
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Die Liewe Heksie / int_9ee0d3eb	type	Land of Faerie
Die Liewe Heksie / int_9ee0d3eb	comment	Land of Faerie: The dichotomy between Bloemmieland, the Summer country with its nice and cheerful Elves, set against the barren stony wasteland of Gifappeltjieland.
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Die Liewe Heksie / int_a15af1f3	type	Sugar Bowl
Die Liewe Heksie / int_a15af1f3	comment	Sugar Bowl: Bloemmielaand.
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Die Liewe Heksie / int_ae853f28	type	Parody
Die Liewe Heksie / int_ae853f28	comment	Parody: Comedian Casper de Vries did a wickedly funny send-up of the show with a pretty much adults-only slant. Apparently this was as shocking to South Africans who'd grown up on LH as vandalising the Blue Peter garden was to the British. American readers: think of the Family Guy skit where Stewie Griffin goes on a psychopathic rampage into the world of Mister Rogers. you just don't do it. Unless it's funny... De Vries reprised this part in a second parody, this time of the Harry Potter franchise. At the end of the skit, "Harry Potgeier" and his chums Hermione and Barry are walking through the quad at Hogwarts, exulting at having won the battle and freeing the world of the evil Voldemart. Then a witch approaches, who they take to be another pupil. She throws back her hood and is revealed as Livinia die Liewe Heksie (also played by de Vries) who calls them a bunch of bastards, and rails at them for making her show look old hat, that all the kids in South Africa are into Harry Potgeier all of a sudden, nobody's watching her show any more, and above all, they're not buying Little Witch merchandise and tie-in books because you bastards are getting it all and that's my money supply drying up! Livinia/deVries then zaps Harry with some lethal spells and cackles as he dies, writhing in agony...
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Die Liewe Heksie / int_aec3d8b2	type	Expository Theme Tune
Die Liewe Heksie / int_aec3d8b2	comment	Expository Theme Tune: The opening and closing theme song introduces the central characters and explains what Bloemmieland is. In the closing song, Lavinia sings about herself and why she is the Dear Little Witch.
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Die Liewe Heksie / int_dd3d1f69	type	Wicked Witch
Die Liewe Heksie / int_dd3d1f69	comment	Wicked Witch: The GeeleHeks, the old cackling crone who tries to steal the secret of Bloemmieland's beauty for her own barren wasteland.
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Die Liewe Heksie / int_ff74ef12	type	Adaptation Inspiration
Die Liewe Heksie / int_ff74ef12	comment	Adaptation Inspiration: Verna Vels was responsible for children's broadcasting on South African radio in the 1950s. and her working life involved sourcing and adapting suitable material from around the world. It is entirely possible that The Little Witch was inspired by the German children's novel The Little Witch (Die Kleine Hexe) written by Otfried Preussler in 1957. The content of the two stories, however, does not show too many similarities except for the idea of a well-meaning young witch who is at odds with her elder(s) in the Craft.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

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