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  • Grand High Witch
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  • The Grand High Witch is the main antagonist of the 1983 children's book The Witches by Roald Dahl and the 1990 fantasy film adaptation of the same name. She is portrayed by Anjelica Huston, who also plays Miss Battle-Axe in the film adaptation and portrayed Miss Harridan in the 2003 film Daddy Day Care.
  • The Grand High Witch, appearing in The Witches, is the head of all of the witches in the world. When interacting with normal people, she appears as the attractive if aloof Miss Eva Ernst, head of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Beneath her skin mask and aristocratic air, however, she is a bald, warty, dictatorial crone, with an elongated nose, loose hanging skin, and the traditional long fingernails and stumpy feet of all witches. She hates children and launches the scheme to turn every child into a mice, making extermination easy.
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type of villain
  • Malicious Witch
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  • prosthetic make-up designer
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Goals
  • Turn every child in England into a mouse so they can get killed .
Origin
  • The Witches
Skills
  • Magic
Design
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Alias
  • Evangeline Ernst
  • Ms. Eva Ernst
  • The Grand High Witch
Hobby
  • Killing children.
  • Punishing and killing incompetent witches.
  • Torturing her underlings.
Performer
Occupation
  • Leader of the Witches
Debut
  • 1990
Fullname
  • The Grand High Witch of All the World
Size
  • 300
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  • The Grand High Witch is the main antagonist of the 1983 children's book The Witches by Roald Dahl and the 1990 fantasy film adaptation of the same name. She is portrayed by Anjelica Huston, who also plays Miss Battle-Axe in the film adaptation and portrayed Miss Harridan in the 2003 film Daddy Day Care.
  • The Grand High Witch, appearing in The Witches, is the head of all of the witches in the world. When interacting with normal people, she appears as the attractive if aloof Miss Eva Ernst, head of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Beneath her skin mask and aristocratic air, however, she is a bald, warty, dictatorial crone, with an elongated nose, loose hanging skin, and the traditional long fingernails and stumpy feet of all witches. She hates children and launches the scheme to turn every child into a mice, making extermination easy.