Some of the main characters in Terry
Pratchett’s Discworld books are witches.
From time to time he slips serious
statements about them into his amusing stories. I sometimes wonder where he got
his ideas about witches and witchcraft from.
There is a little more to add to the article
about a good definition of a witch; the new material is based on more quotations
from Terry Pratchett’s books.
What a witch really is may not match what many
people think a witch is; some of the attributes may be unexpected, but
they are the sign of the real thing.
Witches are different
The idea that there is more than one type of
human being comes from many independent sources.
