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Seller rating : This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers. Used good hardcover First. When Lucas asks his grandmother if she is one, she says yes, albeit retired, then tells of an incident which cost the grandmother her left thumb and which is so horrible she cannot bear to speak of it.
Other than that, she admits her witch hunting career was a failure, as she never came close to tracking the Grand High Witch. While witches look and act like human women, they are actually "demons in human shape. To conceal their appearance, they wear wigs to hide their baldness and gloves to hide their claws.
Hiding their feet are the toughest part, as human girls prefer to wear pointy-toed pumps or high heels, the witches must follow suit, which is extremely painful for their square feet. Witches also detect children by "stink waves", which are projected conversely to when a child bathes, an unwashed child would project very weak waves, whereas a child that just got out of the bath would project a pungent odor to witches. When a child matures into an adult, the stink waves disappear.
The boy thinks this is good as he never has to take another bath, but the grandmother limits it to once a week. As specified in the parents' will, Lucas and his grandmother have to return to England, where he was born and was in school, and where the house he is inheriting is located. Lucas's grandmother warns Lucas to be on his guard, however, since English witches are known to be among the cruelest in the world. They are particularly notorious for turning children into loathsome creatures so that unsuspecting adults kill them.
As Lucas asks more questions, Grandmother reveals that witches in different countries have different customs; and that while the witches in each country have close affiliations with one another, they are not allowed to communicate with witches from other countries. She warns him to beware of the Grand High Witch, the feared and diabolical leader of all of the world's witches, who each year visits their councils in every country.
Shortly after arriving back in England, while Lucas is working on the roof of the tree-house he has been building, he sees a strange woman in black staring up at him with an eerie smile, and he realizes that she is a witch.
When the witch offers him a snake to entice him, he climbs further up the tree and stays there, not daring to come down until his grandmother comes looking for him. This persuades Lucas and his grandmother to be especially wary; and he carefully scrutinizes all women to determine whether or not they might be witches.
However, she also warns that he must be discretionary "You can't go around yanking the hair of every woman you see, even if she is wearing gloves". When the grandmother becomes ill with pneumonia, the doctor orders her to cancel a planned holiday in Norway. Instead, they go to a luxury hotel in Bournemouth on England's south coast, where Lucas gets into trouble with the manager after his new pet mice scare one of the chambermaids.
Under threat of having the poor creatures drowned in a bucket if they are found out of their cage, the boy goes to train his pet mice in the hotel ballroom when the members of the fictional " Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children " show up for their annual meeting. The boy quickly realizes that this is really the yearly gathering of England's witches when one of them reaches underneath her hair to scratch at her scalp with a gloved hand, but is trapped in the room before he can escape.
A young woman goes on stage and removes her entire face, which is really a mask, and turns around to reveal a truly hideous visage revealing herself to be the Grand High Witch. The Witches is a black comedy, but this new version is also more like a horror movie. During a vacation with his grandmother Helga in Norway, 8-year-old American boy, Luke Eveshim, is warned about witches, female demons who immensely hate children and use various methods to destroy or transform them.
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