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13	While the term ''witch'' itself is often applied as a catch-all word for female magic users in fiction, the witch, as it has evolved out of Western traditions and folklore, has a number of distinct trappings and tropes. While witchcraft beliefs -- the folkloric that people work malicious magic on their neighbors -- are found in virtually every culture, being absent only in certain hunting and gathering societies and modern industrial ones, the details of the trope as it appears in Western works is almost exclusively derived from Western folklore.
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15	* '''[[RobeAndWizardHat Traditional Witchy Attire]]''': Black medieval or colonial period dresses and a black pointed hat are the most traditional, but not every witch buys into the uniform. Often they dress normally, especially if they want to blend in, and the traditional clothing only comes out for spell casting or ceremonies. The HotWitch especially tends to dress more wildly while the WickedWitch is almost always traditionally attired. {{Goth}} clothing is also associated with classic witches, as is the NewAgeRetroHippie's typical style of flowy garments.\
16	Alternatively, they may appear [[NudeNatureDance naked]] (or "skyclad"). This is not (always) an artistic convention to allow depiction of nudity but has been found in religious traditions going back to Jainism (where the term skyclad came from) and Creator/{{Hesiod}}'s ''Literature/WorksAndDays''; however, the association of witchcraft with ''[[StarkNakedSorcery ritual]]'' [[StarkNakedSorcery nudity]], as opposed to, say, just [[SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains a lack of inhibitions]], only goes back to [[NewerThanTheyThink the foundation of Gardnerian Wicca in the 1950s.]]
17	* '''[[FlyingBroomstick Broomsticks as a Transportation Method]]''': Witches are known for using broomsticks for {{fl\|ying Broomstick}}ight (and sometimes [[BroomstickQuarterstaff fight]]). In works with low amounts of fantasy, this may be omitted, but broomstick flying is something that is relatively unique to witches and not strongly associated with other types of magic users.
18	* '''Animal Companions''': Witches are often seen around animals, especially nocturnal ones, although [[AllWitchesHaveCats cats are the most common by far]], especially black ones. The animal is usually a {{Familiar}} that aids in spells in some way or is sometimes magic in their own right. The animals being able to communicate with their owners through {{Telepathy}}, or [[TalkingAnimal just being able to speak to all humans]], is common. When a witch doesn't have a cat, other animals they might have include owls, crows, toads, and mice.
19	* '''Association with Nature and the Earth''': Witches are often portrayed as very knowledgeable in the workings of nature, especially plants and weather. Whereas a WizardClassic will have his [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} head in the clouds]], always watching the stars, a witch will be CloserToEarth, watching the seasons turn and advising people when to plant their crops. It's common for a witch to [[SolitarySorceress live alone]] [[EnchantedForest in the woods]], and to be a NatureLover and OutdoorsyGal. A witch probably has a GreenThumb too, so she can grow herbs for her {{Magic Potion}}s, or just to scent her homemade soaps. Being in tune with nature, she may be both an EarthyBarefootCharacter and a MagicalBarefooter.
20	* '''Witchcraft''': Witches practice witchcraft specifically as their [[UnequalRites type of magic]], which, because of the above aspect, is usually strongly tied to nature and may resemble European pagan-like traditions. Commonly their magic employs the use of herbs and strange ingredients like "EyeOfNewt" bubbling away in [[MagicCauldron cauldrons]], as well as nocturnal ceremonies under the moon. Usually, a witch has a SpellBook, perhaps passed down through the family. In modern media, witchcraft is strongly associated with Hollywood versions of RealLife religions of UsefulNotes/{{Wicca}} and other forms of UsefulNotes/NeoPaganism[[note]]although most practitioners of these religions would not consider themselves "witches" and to call them as such could be taken as insulting, media tends not to differentiate.[[/note]] although in the past they were associated with many forms of local folk traditions. Witches usually belong to "covens", groups of witches who practice magic together, share knowledge and resources and often meet to cast more powerful spells. Witches do not usually use a MagicWand or MagicStaff, both of which are more commonly associated with the WizardClassic for [[FreudWasRight some reason]].
21	* '''Associated with Femininity and Sisterhood''': Witches are associated with femininity and sistership, though they're not AlwaysFemale in folklore or in most modern media. Male witches (sometimes called "warlocks" [[note]] though in modern use a Warlock is far closer to an evil wizard than anything resembling one of these[[/note]]) do exist but are [[RareMaleExample rarer than female witches]]. Witches also tend to have sisters, for whatever reason, and they have a strong tradition of passing their magic down from mother to daughter.
22	* '''[[TheWeirdSisters Associated with the number 3]]''': For whatever reason, witches are often seen in threes and involve three in their magic or worship. If a witch has sisters, she's probably part of a trio of siblings. A coven also usually has at least three members, or its members do magic in groups of three. This is most likely related to the concepts of TheWeirdSisters and TheHecateSisters, two tropes that link the number three with both women and divinity.
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24	In early western tradition, the witch was predominantly an evil figure. They worked malicious magic with everything from stealing wedding rings to lethal storms at sea and crop destruction, they made a DealWithTheDevil (after which, in folklore rather than tales, the Devil did not actually have to do what he had promised them to do to get them to make it), and they extorted things by threats of curses.
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26	In modern media, [[GoodWitchVersusBadWitch witches tend to be more neutral or outright good figures]]. Media that has both often pit them against each other to form a BlackAndWhiteMorality dynamic. Usually, good witches are pretty and bad witches are (very) ugly, though when an evil witch is beautiful, she's usually a VainSorceress. Witches are often shown in contrast to a WizardClassic, sometimes being rivals or outright enemies, or just often having differences in opinion.
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28	A witch shown in a modern setting, in genres such as UrbanFantasy, tend to forgo a lot of the traditional associations and tropes tied to the Witch Classic, such as the attire and the broom riding, the character often seeing it as "too traditional". A common modern variation is for the witch to ride a [[PostModernMagik vacuum cleaner (or even Roombas)]] [[PlayedForLaughs as a joke]]. They usually acknowledge they are descended from, or taught by, witches in the European tradition.
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30	'''Subtropes of Witch Classic include''':
31	* CuteWitch: When Witch Classic is crossed with RuleOfCute, resulting in a MagicalGirl version.
32	* HotWitch: When Witch Classic is crossed with RuleOfSexy.
33	* WickedWitch: When Witch Classic is crossed with ObviouslyEvil.
34	* The three combined create one form of TheHecateSisters. (Cute for the Maiden, Hot for the Mother, Wicked for the Crone)
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36	'''Other tropes related to witches''':
37	* AllWitchesHaveCats: The tendency for witches to have cats.
38	* BurnTheWitch: The number one method to get rid of a witch, be she good, evil, or not even a witch to begin with.
39	* GoodWitchVersusBadWitch: The process in fiction by which the original WickedWitch became a Good Witch Classic.
40	* SalemIsWitchCountry: The tendency for witches to set up shop in Salem.
41	* UnEqualRites: Commonly involves feminine "witch magic" being contrasted to masculine "wizard magic".
42	* TheWeirdSisters: Witches like to form teams of three.
43	* WidowWitch: The tendency of witches to be widows and widows to be accused of being witches.
44	* WitchHunt: When the populace tries to root out a witch or some other undesirable.
45	* TheWitchHunter: The most feared enemy of witches ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin because they hunt them]]).
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47	Compare other AlwaysFemale magic users, such as the WhiteMagicianGirl, BlackMagicianGirl, LadyOfBlackMagic, MagicalGirl, SolitarySorceress, and VainSorceress.
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49	While a WitchDoctor also practices magic, they have nothing to do with the Witch Classic. While sometimes witches are a MageSpecies, this is not always, or often the case.
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56	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
57	* ''Manga/FairyTail'': Porlyusica is something of a SolitarySorceress who lives in the woods and practices healing magic. She was once part of the guild but still comes around to help out sometimes. She favors to whack people with a broomstick and mostly uses magic through potions [[spoiler:since, being from Edolas, she has no magic of her own]].
58	* ''Manga/FlyingWitch'': Makoto has a cat familiar only she can understand, rides a broom, wears black robes on witch holidays, and plants a garden. She also takes on her younger (female) cousin as an apprentice. Other characters who uphold witch traditions (including her sister) also drop in from time to time.
59	* ''Franchise/LittleWitchAcademia'': The witches wear pointed hats, ride brooms, wear black [[PurpleIsTheNewBlack or purple]] dresses and brew potions. Every witch-in-training at Luna Nova form a group of three classmates who do almost everything together.
60	* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'': The Witches, including the men, wear a pointed hat, ride brooms, and use wands with pentagrams on them.
61	* ''Manga/SoulEater'':
62	** Most of the witches wear black but modified with an AnimalMotif and different colors.
63	** Blair the Cat wears black with a pointed hat, though she's technically a cat with strong magic and thus the ability to shapeshift into a CatGirl form.
64	* ''Anime/TweenyWitches'': The witches in the Witch Realm wear black with pointed hats, fly on brooms, live in a nature-rich environment, and have three examples of TheWeirdSisters.
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68	* ''Art/MysticalMedleysAVintageCartoonTarot'': The "Eight of Wands" features a coven of [[RobeAndWizardHat robe-and-hat]] witches on {{flying broomstick}}s.
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72	* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': The Silver Age sidekick Kitkat quit super-heroics to study the mystic arts, and renamed herself Greymalkin. She lives in an OldDarkHouse with [[CrazyCatLady dozens of cats,]] and occasionally serves as an advisor to Honor Guard, as well as a backup when the [[TheArchmage Silver Adept]] is unavailable.
73	* Apart from being {{good\|IsNotNice}}, short-lived superhero ComicBook/MotherHubbard fits all the requirements.
74	* ''ComicBook/YorickAndBonesFriendsByAnyOtherName'': The group of witches that [[DemBones Yorick]] and [[CanineCompanion Bones]] meet in the woods all wear black robes and witch's hats, and are all gathered around a large cauldron reciting the "Double, double, toil and trouble" poem. [[spoiler:However, they aren't evil, and are just making soup. And the storm around them? They forgot to dispel it, but do so once Yorick points it out.]]
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78	* ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'': Kiki doesn't wear the pointed hat but does wear a black dress, rides on a broomstick and has a black cat whom she can speak to through magic. Her mother does magic with potions but other witches do things like fortune-telling. The witches go on a journey to live alone for a year as part of their training, and leaving on a full moon is the best night.
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82	* ''Film/HarryPotter'': Minerva [=McGonagall=] was seen on the Quidditch Plaque in Philosopher's Stone, which meant she must've had skill with a broomstick, not to mention she turns into a cat, and her image is never complete without her hat.
83	* The three witch sisters from ''Film/HocusPocus'' wear colonial dresses, ride on brooms, and use EyeofNewt.
84	* ''Film/NannyMcPhee'' is old, hideous, dresses in black, and uses a magic staff. Eric even {{Lampshades}} it.
85	* ''Film/PracticalMagic'': All the main characters, including the very traditional NewAgeRetroHippie aunts as well as the younger heroines, have brooms, use potions, and even wear the traditional clothes during Halloween.
86	* ''Film/TheSexTrip'': The witch who curses Eddie is a small, elderly woman with a face covered in warts, a long curved nose, and a magical walking stick.
87	* The Wicked Witch of the West from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' wears black with a pointed hat, rides a broom, and has a sister.
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91	* ''Literature/TheBlueNosedWitch'': Blanche and the others witches are very much the classic style of witch, with black dresses and pointy hats who travel on {{Flying Broomstick}}s. Blanche even has a black cat, Brockett. The night of Halloween one of the events happening after the flight is the witches making a brew together. Meanwhile, the tall witch leading the group of trick-or-treaters is dressed like this. Blanche at first mistakes her for her best friend Josephine until she gets closer and sees that the mask is rubber--and the hair is stringy, when Josephine is so meticulous about her hair.
92	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': The pointy hats are very important since a lot of being a witch is based on everyone else ''seeing'' you as a witch. The black clothes seem to be mostly because witches are practical and black is hard-wearing. Nanny Ogg and more recently Granny Weatherwax have cats. Broomsticks are generally only used by witches, even though they're made by dwarfs and can be flown by anyone, even without magical talent. One difference from the standard version is that although witches are AlwaysFemale, and Discworld magic is often hereditary (but not invariably, as Tiffany Aching and Ponder Stibbons both demonstrate), witches don't tend to have children, Nanny Ogg and the semi-retired Magrat Garlick being the two exceptions (and even then, none of Nanny's daughters became witches, though we don't know about Esme). Accordingly, witchcraft ''isn't'' passed down from mother to daughter here, it being considered that young witches should learn from another witch with a different way of doing things to prevent a family's magical style from coiling in on itself.
93	%%* ''Literature/DorrieTheLittleWitch'': Many characters fit this, including Dorrie herself and her mother.
94	* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
95	** Most of the witches wear robes and pointed hats, keep cats or owls as pets, and fly on broomsticks. Younger ones tend to forgo the robes for muggle clothing outside of school, though.
96	** Gender inverted with Severus Snape. He's dressed all in black, standoffish, mysterious, and often downright unpleasant, and his magical specialty is brewing potions from herbs and fantastical ingredients.
97	%%* Meg from Jan Pienkowski's ''Meg and Mog'' series.
98	* The students of ''Literature/TheWorstWitch'' fit the mold as witches in training, with the long robe as a part of the uniform and all students receiving a kitten in their first year.
99	* Morwen from the ''Literature/EnchantedForestChronicles''. Most of witch society in this series adheres to WickedWitch imagery, though mostly as a way of protecting their solitude. Morwen dispenses even with this and just seems like a woman who lives in the woods, wears mostly black, and has an unusual number of cats.
100	* Mrs Dzwon in ''Literature/ShamanBlues'' fits the mold quite well, being not the MageSpecies typical for the story, but more of a hedgewitch, complete with nature magic, affinity with earth and dark clothing.
101	* ''Literature/{{Shrek}}'': Soon after leaving home Shrek comes across one in the woods, an old woman with a long nose who is boiling bats in her giant black cauldron. He trades her some of his "rare lice" to her in exchange for getting his fortune told.
102	* The ''Franchise/StarWars'' picture book ''Are You Scared, Darth Vader'' features one of these, complete with pointy hat, long nose and broomstick as one of the things the kid uses to try to scare Darth Vader. However, he comments that "this is just an old woman" and when the kid says that she casts spells and could curse him, he replies "I am already cursed."
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106	* ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'': Granny Addams has many witch characteristics except for the hat. The original series is more ambiguous whether she's actually a witch or not, but the reboot ''The New Addams Family'' has her doing spells and even having to renew her witch license in one episode when she's visited by two classic pointy hat witches.
107	* ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'':
108	** Creator/HannaBarbera produced the opening animation, in which Samantha Stevens wears the conical hat and dark cape, and rides a broom sidesaddle. This is the opening clues in the audience from the get-go that she's a practicing witch, masquerading as a suburban housewife.
109	** In one Halloween episode, Endora turns Darrin into a Witch Classic to teach him a lesson about tolerance. However, he volunteers to be the chaperon for his daughter's class's trick-or-treat outing, and he garners rave reviews for his perfect witch costume.
110	* ''Series/BigTimeRush'': Camille auditions for a movie about witches impersonating one of these. This is a case of WrongGenreSavvy since the producers weren't looking for witch classic and rather by more contemporary {{hot witch}}es.
111	* ''{{Series/Blackadder}}'' referenced this trope a few times, with three witches who are based on the ''Theatre/Macbeth'' ones in the first series, and a "Wise Woman" in the second.
112	* ''[[{{Series/Charmed1998}} Charmed]]'' either embraces or plays with pretty much every aspect of this trope, updating it for young women of the [[TheNineties late 90s]] / [[The2000s early 2000s]]. The very premise of the series puts a strong emphasis on femininity, [[TheWeirdSisters sisterhood]] and the number three. They have their prized [[SpellBook Book of Shadows]], a [[AllWitchesHaveCats cat]] {{Familiar}}, and practice (Hollywood) traditional witchcraft (though this aspect fades somewhat in the later seasons in favour of flashy powers). When other covens are shown, either magical or non-magical, they are depicted as CloserToEarth and very in tune with seasonal and astronomical rituals (even with one instance of [[NudeNatureDance going "skyclad"]]). The main subversion is that the titular Charmed sister witches look like perfectly ordinary (if very stylish) women in their twenties, who just happen to have magic, shedding the degrading visual stereotypes.
113	** Even the visual stereotype is discussed and explored: one episode reveals that [[TheHecateSisters then-youngest sister Phoebe]] is responsible for originating the WickedWitch stereotype when, stuck in the past and BroughtDownToNormal, she had to draw upon the magic of All Hallow's Eve to disperse a mob of [[TheWitchHunter Witch Hunters]] by cackling madly on a FlyingBroomstick, pointed hat and all!
114	* ''Series/LunaNera'': Tebe has long grey hair, a large nose and wears black dresses.
115	* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'':
116	** Downplayed with Sabrina. She has a black cat who is a former warlock, but she lacks the other trappings.
117	** Sabrina's aunts are sisters with the flowy gypsy-like clothes and the occasional potion brewing.
118	* ''Series/SimonAndTheWitch'': The titular witch can ride a broomstick (albeit stolen from the school cupboard), has a magic wand, an animal companion (George) and of course, practices witchcraft (the TV witch is slightly more competent at this than her book counterpart). Sistership and the trio are seen in the Halloween episode with Hatty the Howl and Minnie the Moan and each series also has a visit from the witch's actual sister, Tombola.
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122	* ''Series/HRPufnstuf'': [[LargeHam Witchiepoo]] wears a hat and rides a broom.
123	* Livinia, ''Series/DieLieweHeksie'', is the Witch Classic, this time in an idealised UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica.
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126	[[folder:Theatre]]
127	* ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'': The Witches cackle, rhyme, and have a cauldron full of nasty stuff.
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130	[[folder:Video Games]]
131	* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'': Gruntilda "Grunty" Winkybunion wears black clothes and a pointy hat, rides a broomstick, uses magic as her primary method of attack, has three sisters (one of whom is a FairyGodmother), [[RhymesOnADime talks in rhyme]] (except in ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'' at the request of an annoyed Mingella and Blobbelda), and owns a cat named Piddles in ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooieNutsAndBolts''.
132	* ''VideoGame/CassetteBeasts'': Miasmodeus is a monster that resembles a woman, flies on a broomstick, and attacks by throwing potions.
133	%%* The witches from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow'' and ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow''.
134	* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': Both incarnations of Matoya in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' have the classic appearance, but the XIV incarnation wears shades of blue and wields a staff. Interestingly, they have ''several'' magic brooms, which are enchanted to be semi-sentient and mostly clean her cave home. The XIV version also has Porrogos, magic-wielding frog-like beings, as familiars, which are also sentient.
135	* In ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'', [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Witch]] has a pointy hat, flies on a broom, and makes potions using strange ingredients like traditional witches. However she mixes characteristics of a CuteWitch and WickedWitch; She's youthful and cute like the former, but her {{Jerkass}} tendancies and dangerous potions gives her characteristics of the latter.
136	* ''VideoGame/RedEarth'': Downplayed with Tessa. She uses a magic wand, has a pointed hat (which appears to be alive in some depictions), owns four cats (two of which--Al and Ivan--actually aid her in battle), is often shown thumbing through what is presumably her spellbook, and is seen riding on a broomstick during ''Pocket Fighter/Super Gem Fighter: Mini-Mix''. However, her robes are white and a bit more festive and revealing than your traditional witch. Furthermore, [[InsistentTerminology she refers to herself as a sorcerologist]], one who employs magic in her studies to discern the nature of the universe, and as such, Tessa's brand of witchcraft seems to be a mix of classical cauldron brewing and alchemy.
137	* Grandma Swamp, a minor NPC who appears in ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'', is a robed old hag who tends to talk in rhymes and uses her magical all-seeing eye to keep track of your statistics, such as total playtime and number of deaths. She also insists that she is ''not'' a witch.
138	%%* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': Marisa Kirisame is an example in both the modern Windows games and the appearance-wise, completely different, PC-9801 era Marisa.
139	* The ''VideoGame/{{Witchery}}'' GameMod for ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' is focused around allowing the player to be this, adding in [[RobeAndWizardHat pointy hats]], {{Familiar}}s, [[FlyingBroomstick flying broomsticks]], [[DealWithTheDevil demonic bargains]], RitualMagic, {{Curse}}s, and more.
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143	* ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm'': The Coven is a trio of world-saving witches who dress in black and walk in a group of three girls, though they're aesthetically based on the Wiccans rather than the old witches.
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147	* ''Webcomic/CursedPrincessClub'' is based in a fairytale world where it is taken for granted that witches of this flavor are a regular hazard to be wary of, though their actual and assumed presence in the main story leads to complications:
148	** Princess Gwendolyn, the main character, is a subversion. Her [[FaceOfAThug appearance]], with her messy green hair, sallow skin, creepy eyes, and occasional darkly-colored outfits among other things, makes her look more like a teenage witch than a princess. But not only does she lack magical abilities, she's a NiceGirl who would never be interested in maliciously hexing people anyway. Plus, she and her royal siblings (who are more conventionally attractive) were raised to see her as just another PrincessClassic. But people outside of their social circle ''do'' frequently mistake her for a witch. This most prominently includes Gwen's reluctant fiancé Prince Frederick, who assumes based on her appearance and some [[PoorCommunicationKills awkward and misunderstood interactions with her]] that she's trying to bewitch him.
149	** Played straight with an unnamed witch who first appears in [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/comedy/cursed-princess-club/ep-5-pie-tasting/viewer?title_no=1537&episode_no=5 Episode 5]] and becomes a minor recurring character. She's an old lady with a SinisterSchnoz and a black robe who definitely looks the part, and the first thing she's shown doing is tempting Prince Jamie ([[DudeLooksLikeALady who she mistakes for a "pretty princess"]]) with a candied apple to put a sleeping spell on him. But then she's interrupted by Gwendolyn demanding to know what she's doing; the woman assumes she was about to encroach on another witch's "prey" and quickly leaves (though [[BigEater Jamie]] takes a bite of the apple anyway).
150	** Calpernia is another subversion. Her darkly-colored outfit looks like a tomboyish pantsuit variant of the Evil Queen's outfit from ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' (in contrast to how Gwen and the old lady look like the Evil Queen after she transforms herself into a hag), she lives in a dilapidated mansion in the supposedly [[DontGoInTheWoods haunted forest]] down the cliff from the Pastel Palace, and at one point receives a letter from a crow that looks like it could be her {{Familiar}}. Like Gwen, though, she's a benevolent princess without any magical powers, though she and the rest of the Cursed Princess Club members have {{Curse}}s that were forced on them by others (one member, Monika, is the aforementioned crow, and she only becomes a crow when she's anxious).
151	* ''Webcomic/{{Outsider}}'': [[https://www.deviantart.com/ariochiv/art/Outsider-Storm-Witch-770699736 One Halloween artwork]] depicts Stillstorm in classic witchy attire as a reference to the Umiak referring to her as the Storm-Witch and possibly lampshading her personality quirks, complete with black robes, big pointy hat and bubbling "[[MagicCauldron cauldron]]" (actually the Historian's projector).
152	* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Nanase dresses up [[https://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/2002-11-03 like this]] as a Halloween costume.
153	* ''WebComic/UnicornJelly'': Lupiko, the main character, is a solitary witch and a healer, living in a hut on the outskirts of her village. She has a (somewhat unconventional) broomstick which she doesn't use much because she is afraid of heights. Of course, things aren't quite what they seem in this world...
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157	* ''Website/CollegeHumor'': In a sketch called "The Apothecary Barista", a witch (enthusiastically portrayed by Brennan) is hired to treat people at College Humor's office. She looks old, wears a brown robe and brews potions with magical properties. Those Millennials though... She's baffled by their tastes and general approach to her craft.
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161	%%* The witches in the Neitherworld in ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' are very classic in their look. During the HalloweenEpisode in which Beetlejuice and Lydia have to rescue Percy (Lydia's cat) from a witch going undercover into a witches' coven. Lydia goes for the more VainSorceress attire whilst Beetlejuice chooses the classic look.
162	%%* ''WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost'': Like ghosts, witches seem to be AlwaysChaoticEvil except for Wendy. They're also [[WickedWitch ugly hags]] except, again, for CuteWitch Wendy probably because BeautyEqualsGoodness.
163	* ''WesternAnimation/TheComicStrip'': Jynx from the Mini Monsters. She wore a pointed hat, used magic and had a cauldron for concocting witchcraft.
164	* ''WesternAnimation/DoctorSnuggles'': Winnie Vinegar Bottle, one of the Doctor's friends. She plays the trope straight as she wears a witch hat, has a FlyingBroomstick, uses magic and lives alone in the Salt and Pepper Mountains.
165	* ''WesternAnimation/DorgVanDango'': Patronella's original outfit before she took on her human disguise and started wearing regular clothes.
166	%% * ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck'': Witch Hazel from "Trick or Treat".
167	* ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'': Mrs. Crone, as her name implies, has green skin, long nose, pointy hair, and a cat. She's never shown doing magic though, except for her ability to control her iron hand at a distance.
168	%%* Creator/HannaBarbera: Winsome Witch.
169	* Witch Hazel from ''Franchise/LooneyTunes'' has green skin, a black cloak, and hat, flies on a broom and brews potion (sometimes with WesternAnimation/BugsBunny as a prospective ingredient).
170	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther'': In "Pink-A-Rella", a witch riding a broom and giddy with martinis drops her magic wand. Pink finds the wand and uses it to transform an impoverished girl into a dazzling debutante so that she can meet her idol, [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Pelvis Parsley]]. The boozy witch returns to confront Pink about reclaiming her wand. This cartoon was directed by Creator/FrizFreleng.
171	* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'':
172	** Downplayed with Eda. She has the messy, thick, gray hair of the traditional elderly witch [[YoungerThanTheyLook despite only being in her late 40s]], but she never wears a hat, her dress is a slightly modern interpretation, and she speaks [[TotallyRadical modern slang]]. Also her scepter combines the functions of spirit animal/pet, wand, and broom. The house, indoor and out, has the traditional architecture, decor, and location of the fairytale witch's cottage.
173	** Becoming one of these is [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda's]] primary goal throughout the series. That said, the fictional idol that Luz envisions herself emulating in becoming a witch also features prominent MagicalGirl elements. [[spoiler:In "Thanks to Them", when she follows Belos back to the Boiling Isles, Luz is wearing an Azura Halloween costume, complete with a traditional witch hat. Her mother Camila even lampshades it by commenting " A good witch ''always'' has to have her hat." just before they return to the Boiling Isles together. And then the GrandFinale brings her even closer to the traditional witch appearance when she gets a SuperMode that replaces her Azura costume for [[DarkIsNotEvil a black one with a heavy skeletal motif]].]]
174	%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'': Witches seem to be a supernatural species, but unlike other creatures, their alignment may vary as the witch appearing in "If I Were a Witch Man" was evil and the one in episode "Kitty-Cornered" was friendly. But all have the classic witch look.
175	* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'': The Witch from "The Flying Sorceress" has a conical hat with wide brim, flying broom, witchcraft, wicked cackle, and haunted house. Tom Cat arrives at her home to apply for the position of cat companion.
176	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wishfart}}'': Dusty has green skin, a pointy hat, and magic. Ironically, she gets offended by witch stereotypes and people assuming her to have such traits.
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Context Main / WitchClassic