Roald Dahl's The Witches

The narrator tells the story of an orphan boy who moves to live with his grandmother in Alabama in 1968. To amuse the child, the grandmother buys him a pet mouse, which he calls Daisy. One day they go to the supermarket to get nails, with which the boy is going to build a house for Daisy. There, he meets a strange woman who offers him candy. A snake crawls out of the woman's sleeve. At this point, the boy is called by his grandmother, and the woman disappears.

Returning home, the boy tells his grandmother about a strange meeting. His grandmother tells him that it was not a woman, but a witch, and recalls the story of her childhood best friend Alice, who took candy from a witch and turned into a chicken. Grandma says that witches never leave on their own after finding a child. In desperation, the boy and grandmother go to a hotel and decide to stay there for a while. At the Inn, my grandmother tells me that witches have raspy voices, deformed feet without fingers, clawed hands, wide mouths and nostrils, and that they are bald and wear wigs.

The next day, the grandmother tells the boy to go have fun. He takes Daisy and a rope to train her to walk on, and sneaks into the hotel's great hall, where they are not to be disturbed. On the way, he meets Bruno, a plump English boy who loves chocolate. When the main character is about to play with Daisy, a group of women enter the hall. The boy hides under the stage and watches in horror as the witches remove their disguise.

The high witch shouts to the others that there are too many children in the world. She tells her Grand plan: each witch will open a pastry shop and sell children candy with a magic potion that will turn them into mice.

Bruno knocks on the door, having already been given chocolate and potion by the high witch and promised more. After entering the hall, he turns into a mouse and hides in the air vent, where the main character and Daisy are already hiding. The high witch discovers the boy and forcibly pours a potion into him, turning him into a mouse. During the commotion, the boys learn that Daisy was once an orphaned young girl named Mary, but three months ago, a witch turned her into a mouse.

The children, turned into mice, return to the hotel room where the boy and his grandmother are staying. They tell their grandmother about the witches ' plan and discover that the high witch is staying in the room directly below them. The main character, Bruno and Mary figure out how to get a bottle of potion so that grandma can make medicine and turn them back into children. The plan works, but my grandmother can't create a cure. Resigned to the fact that they will remain mice, the children decide to prevent the witches from carrying out their sinister plan. The main character adds a potion to the pea soup that will be served to the witches during lunch.

All witches eat soup. The high witch is about to do the same, but sees her grandmother and goes to her. She tells her grandmother that she recognizes her as the runaway friend of a girl turned into a chicken. While they are talking, the mice steal the key to the high witch's room. At this point, the other witches begin to turn into rats, and the dining hall begins to chaos.

Granny and the mice quietly leave and go to the high witch's room. Grandma puts all the potions in the bag, intending to destroy them. But then the high witch appears and is going to kill my grandmother. The mice trick her into drinking the potion, and the high witch turns into a rat. Grandma catches her and doesn't let her escape. Before leaving the room, the grandmother takes money from the high witch's suitcase and lets her cat out of the cage. When they close the door, the cat attacks and kills the rat-turned high witch.

The grandmother tries to return Bruno to his parents and explain the situation to them, but the mother and father do not accept the mouse-turned son back. Grandma, the main character, Mary and Bruno go home together and become a family.

The narrator is a boy who has become an old mouse. Together with their grandmother, they teach children how to hunt witches.