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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.

[edit] 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 ...

[edit] Characters

[edit] Main characters

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

[edit] Minor characters

• Death

[edit] 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

[edit] Locations

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

• Ankh-Morpork

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

[edit] 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

[edit] Roundworld references

• Hamlet and Macbeth, plays by William Shakespeare (both in the main storyline and the play Hwel writes for Felmet)

• 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

• The Marx Brothers (one of Hwel's discarded ideas)

• Charlie Chaplin (one of Hwel's discarded ideas)

• Laurel and Hardy (one of Hwel's discarded ideas)

[edit] External links

Wyrd Sisters Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File