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Wyrd Sisters
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Published	November 1988
Publisher	Victor Gollancz
ISBN	0552134600
Pages	251
Series	Witches Series
Main characters	Esme Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, Magrat Garlick
Annotations	Annotations for Wyrd Sisters
Notes	Book #06
All data relates to the UK hardback edition.

Blurb

Witches are not by their nature gregarious, and they certainly don't have leaders.

Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have.

But even she found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more difficult than certain playwrights would have you believe ...

Characters

Main characters

• Esme Weatherwax
• Nanny Ogg
• Magrat Garlick
• King Verence
• Leonal Felmet and Lady Felmet
• Tomjon
• Olwyn Vitoller
• Hwel

Minor characters

• Death

Cameos and Mentions

• Goodie Whemper, now dead witch who tutored Magrat
• Former Lancre Kings and Queens
  • Champot
  • Queen Grimnir, the Impaler (1514*1553, 1553*1557, 1557*1562, 1562*1567 and 1568*1573) [note the 57 reference in her 2nd reign], a vampire queen
• Bentzen, ruthlessly efficient killer

Locations

• Ramtops
  • Lancre
    • Lancre Castle
      • Long Gallery, gallery of regal portraits
  • Mad Wolf (mentioned)
  • Razorback (mentioned)

• Ankh-Morpork

• Klatch (mentioned)
• Howondaland (mentioned)
• Hergen (mentioned)
• Sto Plains (mentioned)

Things/etc Referenced

• Cripple Mister Onion
• Zen, sub-sect of the philosophical system of Sumtin ("something"?)
• The Hedgehog Can Never be Buggered at All, a drinking song w/ anal undertones
• A Wizard's Staff Has A Knob On The End, a drinking song w/ phallic overtones

Roundworld references

• Snakes and Ladders, a child's game (aka "Chutes and Ladders")

• Gormenghast, a foreboding fictional castle (also mentioned in Equal Rites)

• Zen, a philosophical system

Annotations

• Direct Shakespeare references:

• • "When shall we three meet again?'" - much of this book (including this quote) parodies, references, or directly quotes MacBeth and other Shakespeare plays.

• • "Can you tell by the pricking of your thumbs?" parodies "By the pricking of my thumbs" from Macbeth.

• Death notes that "close relatives" will be able to see Verence's ghost. The fact that The Fool can sense (not see) him hints that they're related, though we later learn this isn't true.

• "'Godmothers,' said Nanny Ogg promptly." - Here, Nanny mentions she's a godmother to avoid saying she's a witch. In Witches Abroad, Magrat says she's a fairy to avoid admitting she's a godmother!

• "'Spinning wheels and pumpkins and pricking your finger on rose thorns and similar' [...] That was Magrat for you. Head full of pumpkins. Everyone's fairy godmother, for two pins." - much of this book foreshadows Witches Abroad