Family 2: Witches

One of my new favorite family stories: Apparently when my mom misbehaved as a kid, my grandma would tell her that her real mother was Hattie the Witch, a character from the Uncle Al Show. As you can see, Hattie (all the way to the right) was pretty scary. My grandma was awesome. I would feel a little bad for my mom, except that from what I hear, my mom was not much swayed by this.

Plus my mom loved/loves witches, something I've definitely inherited. One of the most famous fights my parents ever had was when my dad threw away a list my mom had made of all the witches in Samantha Stephen's family. For those of you not in the know, Samantha Stevens from Bewitched. It was a genealogy of witches, warlocks, etc. That, there, is my mom in a nutshell. My mom is also awesome. (I should note this is not like my dad; he's usually saintly indulgent with my mom regarding her incredibly bizarre quirks. And awesome).

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Other posts about witches:
Top Ten Witches:
http://filmexperience.blogspot.com/2007/10/tuesday-top-ten-witches.html
Witches as Art:
http://katyhoran.blogspot.com/2007/10/update.html
The last time I talked about witches:
http://antfromnaptown.blogspot.com/2007/04/bell-book-and-candle.html
The time before that I talked about witches (in my favorite kid's books):
http://antfromnaptown.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_archive.html
Eva Green as a witch:
http://www.goldencompassmovie.com/blog/us/featured/cast/eva-green/