From the first I escaped unharmed, but on the second occasion I was not so lucky. My Grandmother I myself had two separate encounters with witches before I was eight years old. But there are a number of little signals you can look out for, little quirky habits that all witches have in common, and if you know about these, if you remember them always, then you might just possibly manage to escape from being squelched before you are very much older. Oh, if only there were a way of telling for sure whether a woman was a witch or not, then we could round them all up and put them in the meat-grinder. But- and here comes the big "but"- it is not impossible. All I am saying is that she might be one. I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. Perhaps she is smiling at the absurdity of such a suggestion. She might even- and this will make you jump- she might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. She might be the lady with the dazzling smile who offered you a sweet from a white paper bag in the street before lunch. Or she might be the woman with the bright eyes who sat opposite you on the bus this morning. For all you know, a witch might be living next door to you right now. Which lady is the witch? That is a difficult question, but it is one that every child must try to answer. If a tiger were able to make himself look like a large dog with a waggy tail, you would probably go up and pat him on the head. Even when you know all the secrets (you will hear about those in a minute), you can still never be quite sure whether it is a witch you are gazing at or just a kind lady. What makes her doubly dangerous is the fact that she doesn't look dangerous. As far as children are concerned, a REAL WITCH is easily the most dangerous of all the living creatures on earth. Bu neither of them is half as dangerous as a REAL WITCH. On the other hand, a ghoul is always a male. But the fact remains that all witches are women. I do not wish to speak badly about women.
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No country in the world is completely free from WITCHES. Some countries have more, others have not quite so many. In England, there are probably about one hundred of them altogether. But there are still quite enough to make you nervous. Luckily, there are not a great number of REAL WITCHES in the world today. She can make stones jump about like frogs and she can make tongues of flame go flickering across the surface of the water. Don't forget that she has magic in her fingers and devilry dancing in her blood. People who do those things get caught by the police. A witch, you must understand, does not knock children on the head or stick knives into them or shoot at them with a pistol. Then the witch stalks the wretched child like a hunter stalking a little bird in the forest. Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear. Anything less than that and she becomes grumpy. She reckons on doing away with one child a week. "Which child," she says to herself all day long, "exactly which child shall I choose for my next squelching?" A REAL WITCH gets the same pleasure from squelching a child as you get from eating a plateful of strawberries and thick cream. Even if she is working as a cashier in a supermarket or typing letters for a businessman or driving round in a fancy car (and she could be doing any of these things), her mind will always be plotting and scheming and churning and burning and whizzing and phizzing with murderous bloodthirsty thoughts. It is all she thinks about the whole day long. Her passion is to do away with them, one by one. A REAL WITCH spends all her time plotting to get rid of the children in her particular territory. A REAL WITCH hates children with a red-hot sizzling hatred that is more sizzling and red-hot than any hatred you could possibly imagine. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ORDINARY JOBS. REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women. The most important thing you should know about REAL WITCHES is this. nihua- _ A Note about Witches In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks. I will not be held responsible for your actions after you have been properly advised. If you somehow got hold of this eBook file, by whatever means, and you do not own a copy of the original book, please delete this file immediately.
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