The Witches

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.’