Next Section Character List Previous Section About The Witches Buy Study Guide How To Cite in MLA Format Cohen, Madeline. The boy is still a mouse, and will only live another nine years but he is not concerned by this, since he will live as long as his grandmother. The plan succeeds: all the witches are instantly transformed into mice, and then killed by the hotel staff and guests.Īfter returning home, the boy and the grandmother come up with a plan to use the potion to eradicate all of the witches in the world. The boy comes up with a plan to turn all the witches into mice by stealing some of the potion and putting it into the witches' food. The boy finds Bruno and realizes that both of them still regain their personalities, voices and intelligence despite being transformed. After discovering the boy, the witches turn the boy into a mouse as well. Although supernatural beings and actions violate. The reader is asked to believe in the reality of the supernatural world. As part of her presentation, the Grand High Witch lures a boy named Bruno Jenkins who is a guest in the hotel and turns him into a mouse. The Witches is a fantasy novel with strong roots in classic fairy tales. The witch explains her plan of putting the potion in candy and having the witches all open sweet shops.

He overhears the grand witch introducing her new invention, something she calls Formula 86, a potion to turn children into mice. When the grandmother and the boy go on a holiday to a fancy hotel on the English coast, the boy encounters a group of witches gathering for their yearly meeting. The grandmother warns him about the Grand High Witch, the most evil and most feared leader of all the witches. The Witches is a 1990 dark fantasy comedy horror film directed by Nicolas Roeg, produced by Jim Henson and starring Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Rowan Atkinson, and Jasen Fisher. Aside from a few distinguishing physical characteristics (they are bald, have clawed hands, and lack toes), witches look like human women, but are awful creatures that prey on children. She tells him many stories about witches, specifically how to recognize them so he will be safe from them. To a witch, a child smells like dogs droppings, and the Grand High Witch has.

The boy and his grandmother are great friends. The unnamed protagonist, known only as the boy, moves in with his grandmother after he is left an orphan.

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