![]() ![]() The witch's ``true'' history as a devoted mother and pious servant of God renders her a compelling and entirely sympathetic figure, a heroine courageously fighting the evil spirits that have invaded her once-pure life. As she did in The Prince of the Pond, Napoli gives a classic fairy tale an entirely new twist, at the same time incorporating absorbing details about medieval religious beliefs. Escaping from the stake, where she is about to be burned, she ekes out a solitary existence in an enchanted forest-until she takes in two wandering children named Hansel and Gretel. ![]() ![]() A midwife-cum-sorceress known simply as the Ugly One narrates this riveting tale of how, tricked by the devil's minions, she lost her gifts for healing and was forced to become a witch. ![]()
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