There's nothing quite as thrilling as a luscious old-style 'wicked witch'. And the 'luscious old fashioned wicked witch' refers to a person who only enjoys doing vile deeds.
For example, the psychic Bellatrix Lestrange from the Harry Potter series. whose devotion to Lord Voldemort is unrivaled. Or the three witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth, who sit around a boiling cauldron plotting their next evil deed.
So let's revisit some of fiction's most infamous witches – condemned for wrongdoing, unrepentantly evil and unashamedly cunning.
Elphaba
Wicked's Elphaba is largely misunderstood and has absolutely no interest in simply spreading mischief. His 'evil' epithet is nothing but a misunderstanding. Mainly because of her green appearance, she faced discrimination. It forces him to make some difficult decisions, which the people around him are not smart or sympathetic enough to understand.
He is diligent, hardworking. However, Dorothy is imprisoned only to retrieve her dead sister's shoes. If there is a question of pure mischief, then Elphaba will not get a passing mark at all. But he excelled his contemporaries by flying to the beat of the song. Where the wickedness is lacking, his vocal range makes up for it.
The Grand High Witch
The Grand High Witch from Roald Dahl's The Witches hates children as much as you or I do when we see a mouse on the kitchen floor. He has sharp paws in place of his normal bald head and claws. With which and only by showing his face he can frighten children.
But she wears beautiful wigs, splendid shoes and glittering gloves to hide her true form. Five stars held meetings in the ballroom, so that she and her fellow witches could plan comfortably.
With a sweet smile on his face he conceals the plan to kill the children. Lure the children with the lure of sweets, then inflict fancy punishments on them. For example, capturing them forever in a picture or cutting off their thumb.
At one point he introduced a mediator – mixing a special drug in the candy, which would turn the children into rats and then exterminate them with pest control.
Unlike Voldemort, the Grand High Witch works a little harder to destroy her enemies. than the two-second 'Abada Kedavra'.
Like Roald Dahl's Grand High Witch, Hocus Pocus's Winifred Sanderson has a deep hatred for children and wants to destroy them in one fell swoop. But she doesn't have a group of loyal witches like the Grand High Witch. Rather, he is accompanied by his two foolish sisters. whom he loves very much. But they are not as clever as him.
Where the Grand High Witch lures the children with the temptation of sweets, Winifred subdues them with a magical song – I'll Put a Spell on You. It might have worked, if not for some mischievous children standing in their way like Scooby Doo's villains.
These three characters of witches – infamous for their lack of justice, pure wickedness and unabashed mischief – are a unique symbol of modern literature. Source: The Express Tribune
