She is the resident witch of Bad Ass, but she tends to regard the whole kingdom, and indeed absolutely anywhere else she happens to be, as her rightful domain, (not unlike Adora Belle Dearheart in that respect.) Her cottage is probably the most traditional of all the witches' cottages in Lancre, complete with archaic thatch, goats, and huge thickets of 'herbs' which move even when there's no breeze. She is considered, (not least of all by herself,) to be the best witch on the Discworld and is refered to by the Pictsies as the 'Hag O' Hags'. Granny Weatherwax, (full name Esmerelda ('Esme') Weatherwax, Troll name Aaoograha hoa ('She Who Must Be Avoided,') Dwarf name K'ez'rek d'b'duz ('Go Around the Other Side of the Mountain,') Nac Mac Feegle name The Hag O' Hags ('The High Hag,')) is a witch, who lives in a small cottage outside the village of Bad Ass, in the kingdom of Lancre, on the Sto Plains face of the Ramtops. She has a special fondness for bees and keeps several hives in her garde …more

‘ Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own’ The TimesĮqual Rites is the first book in the Witches series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.Granny Weatherwax, (full name Esmerelda ('Esme') Weatherwax, Troll name Aaoograha hoa ('She Who Must Be Avoided,') Dwarf name K'ez'rek d'b'duz ('Go Around the Other Side of the Mountain,') Nac Mac Feegle name The Hag O' Hags ('The High Hag,')) is a witch, who lives in a small cottage outside the village of Bad Ass, in the kingdom of Lancre, on the Sto Plains face of the Ramtops. ‘ If you’ve never read a Discworld novel, what’s the matter with you?’ Guardian With Granny’s help, Esk sneaks her way into the magical Unseen University and befriends apprentice wizard Simon.īut power is unpredictable, and these bright young students soon find themselves in a whole new dimension of trouble. Thankfully Granny Weatherwax, the Discworld’s most famous witch, has plenty of experience ignoring the status quo. So when the wizard Drum Billet accidentally passes on his staff of power to an eighth daughter of an eighth son, a girl called Eskarina (Esk, for short), the misogynistic world of wizardry want nothing to do with her. ‘They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.’Įverybody knows there’s no such thing as a female wizard.

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