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(Thats still scary though, especially if youre a pipe.)
Heres a celebration, in no particular order, of fifty great television witches.
If youre looking for Halloween costume inspiration, you could do worse than taking a look at the below.
Its about time more people dressed up as Grotbags.
Sadistic, silly, cruel or comic, meet fifty witchy madams and misters… Gross-out humor and grown-ups acting silly.
Rowena, Supernatural
Crowleys mother Rowena is a storm of contradictions.
However, she makes the list for a truly inspired bit of stunt casting.
Shes played by Lesley Nicol, better known as Mrs Patmore, the cook fromDownton Abbey.
The theme song alone is enough to induce night sweats.
Shes still our favorite though.
Captain Kirk, Star Trek: All Our Yesterdays
Yes,theCaptain Kirk.
further reading: Does Gene Roddenberrys Ghost Haunt the Paramount Lot?
Not that this helped her when chased by a bloodthirsty vampire while wearing impractical high heels.
It all adds to Fenellas sense of chaos.
The Scooby Gangs lesbian wiccans had a charmed romance that was cut cruelly short.
Slitting a Kings throat, burning a child alive… all in the name of worship.
Tall, stern and forbidding, she leaps off the page looking immoveable as a rock.
Mildreds clumsy and strong-headed but goodhearted and kind.
Whatever shes accused of, its almost always Ethel Hallows fault, that little witch.
Morgause, Merlin
This powerful sorceress was wilier than a fox (and played by one).
The rest, as they say, was seven seasons of convoluted, bloody history.
And in the middle of it all, a powerful witch who has yet to master her considerable abilities.
Shes unkempt, white-haired and aged, but every bit as deadly with a curse or a home-brewed potion.
Always seems to be having fun too, which is nice to see.
No eighties child was safe.
Some truly,trulyfabulous hair.
Shes the mighty high priestess, after all.
Witch or no, this woman had power.
She plots, she murders beloved close relatives, she smirks a lot while looking fabulous.
Don and Maggie Stark, Supernatural: Shut Up, Dr Phil!
Lafayette also possessed a lot of power and was adept at using magic when he needed to.
Underneath the party tricks, shes really Evelyn Poole, a nightcomer and servant of the devil.
Yes, she meets a cruel end, but boy, does she deserve it.
The White Witch, The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe.
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