Why I am a Witch by Sylvia Daisy Pouncer
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Author: Sylvia Daisy Pouncer
Publisher: Not known
Source book: The Midnight Folk by John Masefield
Kay Harker discovers his unpleasant governess is up to something. There are all sorts of goings on in his house after he has been sent to bed. With the help of Nibbins, the black cat (witch’s cat retired), he starts investigating, and one day when the governess has gone out, he takes a look in her bedroom. He finds all sorts of incriminating goodies, such as an ointment for turning little boys into tom-tits (I always found that a very creepy idea when I was a child), broomsticks and some seven league boots, but also damningly, a selection of books: Broomsticks, or the Midnight Practice,
Spells and How to Bind Them,
The Beginner’s Merlin,
Merlin’s 100 Best Bewitchals,
Were-Wolves, by one of them,
Shape-changing for All by M Le Fay, and
Why I am a Witch by Sylvia Daisy Pouncer.
There’s a whole coven of witches, a fox called Rollicum Bitem, a mermaid called Foam-Blossom, and a selection of bats, owls, otters, two more cats and a rat.
We never do find out why Sylvia Daisy has become a witch. Obviously she finds pretending to be a governess terribly boring, but if you are searching for a long lost treasure I suppose you have to work while you are about it. Magic is probably very expensive. Abner Brown is also searching for the treasure, and also using magic; but in the end it is Kay’s old toys who find the treasure.
Sylvia Daisy Pouncer and Abner Brown turn up in the not quite sequel to The Midnight Folk; The Box of Delights, where they appear to be extremely respectably married and running a college for young curates. But, you guessed, obviously they are up to no good and Kay and his friends find themselves drawn into a fiendish plot to cancel Christmas. (Well, more or less).
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| Thanks to Welsh Love Spoons by Adam King Every witch needs a proper broom |
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