Top Story: The Witches

It deals with the legends of evil witches by showing children that good overcomes evil.

In Roald Dahl’s Revolting Recipes, pea soup based on the food consumed by the witches appears as one of the recipes.

The boy and his grandmother then create a plan to use the potion recipe the witches created to attack the Grand High Witch’s Norwegian headquarters.

At the beginning of the book, the evil of the witches is described and how each witch makes it a goal to vanquish at least one child a week. In a warm household, an orphaned boy is being lectured by his grandmother about how to recognise witches, otherwise he will not survive in this world. Although the witches in the novel are able to disguise themselves as ordinary women, there are a few small hints that can enable a person to recognise a witch if they know everything about them.

The book’s witches make up a well-connected organisation which aims to wipe out children. Everyone in Norway is particularly knowledgeable about witches, as Norway is where the first witches came from and is where they have their seat of power.

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