Book· 1983· Fantasy

The Witches

by Roald Dahl

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The Witches

Film · 1990

AdaptationHIGH

Nicolas Roeg's film adapts Roald Dahl's novel about a boy who uncovers a convention of witches plotting to turn England's children into mice. Dahl disliked the film for reversing his ending, in which the boy stays a mouse.

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The Witches

The story is set partly in Norway and partly in England, and features the experiences of a young English boy and his Norwegian grandmother in a world where child-hating societies of witches secretly exist in every country. The witches are ruled by the vicious and powerful Grand High Witch, who arrives in England to organise her plan to turn all of the children there into mice.