After scolding the English witches for their lack of progress in eliminating the children, incinerating one of them when she talked back about her demands for the death of every English child within a year, the Grand High Witch unveils a master plan. A young woman goes on stage and removes her mask, revealing herself to be the Grand High Witch. The boy quickly realizes that this is really the yearly gathering of England's witches when one of them reaches underneath her hair to scratch at her scalp with a gloved hand. The boy goes to train his pet mice in the hotel ballroom when the members of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children show up for their annual meeting. Instead, they go to a luxury hotel in Bournemouth on the southern English coast. When the grandmother later becomes ill with pneumonia, the doctor orders her to cancel a planned holiday in Norway. This persuades the boy and his grandmother to be especially wary and he carefully scrutinizes all women to determine whether or not they might be witches. When the witch offers him a snake to entice him, he climbs further up the tree and stays there, not daring to come down until his grandmother comes looking for him. Shortly after arriving back in England, while the boy is working on the roof of the treehouse he has been building, he sees a strange woman in black staring up at him with an eerie smile, and he realizes that she is a witch. She warns him to beware of the Grand High Witch, the feared and diabolical leader of all of the world's witches, who each year visits their councils in every country. As the boy asks more questions, the grandmother reveals that witches in different countries have different customs and that while the witches in each country have close affiliations with one another, they are not allowed to communicate with witches from other countries. They are particularly notorious for turning children into loathsome creatures so that unsuspecting adults kill them. The grandmother warns the boy to be on his guard, however, since English witches are known to be among the cruelest in the world. Per the parents' will, the boy and his grandmother have to return to England, where he was born and was in school, and where the house he is inheriting is located. While witches look and act like human women, they are actually "demons in human shape." They have bald heads that they hide with wigs, clawed hands that they usually hide with gloves and toeless feet that make it extremely painful to wear pretty shoes. She also tells about witchophiles, who hunt witches, which she is retired from, telling of an encounter with a witch which cost the grandmother her left thumb, but otherwise said her witchophile career was a failure as she never killed another witch.
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She tells the boy that she knows of five children who were cursed by witches and tells him how to recognise them. He loved all the stories, but he was enthralled by the ones about witches, which she says are horrific creatures who seek to kill human children. The grandmother is a wonderful story teller. A seven-year-old boy goes to live with his Norwegian grandmother after his parents are killed in a car crash.
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