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Witches And Villains: The Grand High Witch
From movies to literature, superheroes and villains are a frequent thing. Of course, superheroes have a huge role in stories, as helping and saving innocent people from death from evil rivals. Yet, villains play very dark roles, each has great talent that can play in mind. However, the villain that stands out to be one of the numerous of them all, from disguise, murder, and concealed witchcraft, is The Grand High Witch.
The Grand High Witch did best to hide her hideous appearance by disguising her actual and shocking identity. "Real witches dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women.” The Grand High Witch disguised well by covering her lengthy claws with gloves, and by covering her square-like feet with heels. The Grand High Witch used her disguise to get a hold of all the innocent children.” What makes her doubly dangerous is the fact that she doesn't look dangerous." This figurative language indicates that no matter how "trusted" someone seems,
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"A foolish witch without a brain must sizzle into fire and flame!" She committed murder to witches every meeting, to get her followers frightened of her too. She is represented as accurately disastrous, due to carelessness in killing her own species. However, she doesn't also kill witches, but she kills the common and innocent children and doesn't mind her selfish movements.
As the Grand High Witch of all witches, she was the code of magic and witchcraft. She was capable of using it to kill children. "She was skilled at brewing potions, as shown with her personally crafted formula to transform humans to mice." She tended to use that formula several times to get children killed quickly. She used magic to kill her own species by sending fire rays from her deadly eyes to burn and kill them. Without her skillful magic, she would not have all this power to get rid of children and

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