![]() ![]() Belladonna has a gorgeous singing voice it comes with being a white witch. Beautiful Singing Voice: Played for Laughs.Be as Unhelpful as Possible: Esmeralda the gypsy assures Arriman that a new dark wizard is coming, but can't tell him when or where this successor will come and is very rude about the whole thing.When someone suggests that she cheat in the dark-magic-competition for the dark wizard Arriman's hand, he reasons that "cheating is evil, and he wants evil, so that's fine". She is overjoyed when she manages to turn the blossoms that spontaneously grew in her tent into bloodstained thumbscrews. Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: Belladonna is a good witch, who is ashamed of her magic, and wants to be more evil.Autocannibalism: The finale of Madame Olympia's musical performance piece, giant plague rats attack and eat each other and the last one standing eats itself.The only one who's at all kind to her is Mother Bloodworth, and even she isn't too comfortable talking about Belladonna's. All of the Other Reindeer: Belladonna is hated by pretty much every other witch in the coven, because she's a good witch.He has a tendency towards temper tantrums or petty revenge when he's annoyed, but he's a decent employer to his servants, a gracious host to his guests, and, in the end, both a loving husband to Belladonna and good mentor to Terrence. The trope is particularly strong with Arriman, though: Though he is known as one of the worst black wizards in the world, he's generally pretty genial and polite. Affably Evil: Most of the evil characters in the book are either Laughably Evil or this.But will she come out on top, when one of the group resorts to underhanded methods to win? With Terrence and Rover on her side, Belladonna is certain to win. ![]() But luck seems on her side when she meets an orphan boy named Terrence Mugg, whose pet worm, Rover, appears to be Belladonna's familiar, capable of giving her dark magic. In fact, she's a white witch, who can only perform good magic. She's determined to win at all costs, but there's a minor setback: she's not a dark witch at all. Meanwhile, for Belladonna, it's Love at First Sight when she sees Arriman. To choose, Arriman proposes a contest for them: they must all perform acts of black magic for him, and whoever does the most evil thing will be his wife. His options are Mabel Wrack (the daughter of a mermaid-turned-human), eternally bickering twins Nancy and Nora Shouter, the uncouth Ethel Feedbag, the ever-befuddled Mother Bloodworth, sinister Madame Olympia, and sweet Belladonna. Of the witches in the area, the pickings are slim. Thus, though he's not too keen on the idea, Arriman decides to marry a black witch so that he can produce an heir the old-fashioned way. A no-nonsense fortune teller insists that one with even more potential than Arriman is on the way, but there's no sign of him ever making an appearance. He's starting to get up there in years, and has no black wizard to pass his legacy on to. Which Witch? is a 1979 children's fantasy novel by Eva Ibbotson.Īrriman Canker, otherwise known as Arriman the Awful, Loather of Light and Wizard of the North, is getting worried.
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