Witches, the unnamed boy narrator claims ... In the book and the first film adaptation, the “grandmama” is a cigar-smoking Norwegian kook. In this new version, she’s a vivacious, well ...

Nic Roeg’s 1990 adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witches notoriously traumatized ... it involves a cautionary tale Luke’s cigar-smoking grandmother Helga (the great Swedish actress and ...

At the start of Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial, readers are asked to think of the first witch that made an impression on them.

Mention witches and people will think about a plethora of different things. Little girls dressed up in black and carrying a tiny broom on Halloween night. Countless horror movies and TV shows full ...