Terry Pratchett on witches

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This is one day late, but what the H.

From an interview with the author.

 

Hope everyone had a great Halloween!

 

Quote:

 

Certainly witchcraft for Tiffany has very little to do with magic as people

generally understand it. It has an awful lot to do with taking responsibility

for yourself and taking responsibility also for the less able people and, up to

a certain point, guarding your society. This is based on how witchcraft really

was, I suspect. The witch was the village herbalist, the midwife, the person who

knew things. She would sit up with the dying, lay out the corpses, deliver the

newborn. Witches tended to be needed when human beings were meeting the

dangerous edges of their lives, the places where there is no map. They don't

mess around with tinkly spells; they get their hands dirty.

 

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