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The Witches is a book for children by Roald Dahl, first published in London in 1983 by Jonathan Cape. The book, like many of Dahl's works, is illustrated by Quentin Blake. Its content has made the book the frequent target of censors and it appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 at number twenty-seven.[1] For the 1990 film of the book, see The Witches.





Contents

1 Plot
2 How to recognise a witch
3 Trivia
4 See also
5 References



Plot
"One child a week is fifty-two a year. Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear." That is the motto of all witches in Dahl's world. The book's witches are part of a well-connected organization with one goal: the elimination of as many children as possible, ideally all of them.
At the annual convention of English witches (which has been ironically disguised as a Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children convention), the Grand High Witch, angry at the witches' failure to destroy all of the children in England, unveils her master plan; the British witches should purchase lots of sweet shops (using money given to them by the Grand High Witch) and give away chocolate. The chocolate will have been laced with a magic potion that will not only turn anyone who eats it into a mouse but will do so at a specific time. The witches are instructed by the Grand High Witch that the potion will activate at 9 am, the day after the children have eaten the chocolate, when they are at school. The teachers, she hopes, will panic and kill the mice, thereby doing the witches' work for them.
Unfortunately for the witches, an old Norwegian witch expert and her grandson – the unnamed protagonist – are staying at the same hotel as the congregation of witches. By chance, the narrator is hiding in the convention room at the time training his pet mice. After the witches unveil their true selves (removing their wigs to reveal bald scalps, their shoes to reveal toeless feet, their gloves to reveal long, sharp claws, and grinning widely with their mouths full of blue saliva) he quickly realizes what is going on and attempts to stay hidden.
The Grand High Witch turns a fat child named Bruno Jenkins, lured to the convention hall by the promise of free chocolate, into a mouse as a demonstration of how her potion works. Shortly after, the witches smell the narrator's presence (children smell repulsive to witches) and promptly turn him into a mouse as well.
The newly transformed narrator manages to reach his grandmother's room safely. Together they hatch a plan to turn the witches' potion against them by adding it to the soup reserved for the witches themselves. They all turn into mice almost instantly, as they have all consumed at least five doses. The hotel staff panic, as the Grand High Witch predicted, and kill England's witches in their form as mice. The narrator and his grandmother then come up with a plan to use the money and extra potion left behind by the witches to attack the Grand High Witch's Norwegian[citation needed] headquarters and travel around the world getting rid of all the witches they can find.