I love the witch books. It's about time there was another one.
What happened to Eskarina and Magrat's baby?
Has Agnes Nitt taken Magrat's place in the unofficial Granny Weatherwax coven?

Hm... Eskarina: I seem to remember PTerry himself said at one point that he wasn't planning on make her appear again.

Spoilers for "Mort" and later Death Books :

[quote:e985b2b5fe][size=9:e985b2b5fe] [color=white:e985b2b5fe]Seeing how much time passed on the Discworld (except in Lancre, where they jumped over a few years) she should be in her mid forties by "now" (assuming that she was in her late teens at the end of Equal Rites, and seeing the next book was "Mort" and how, by "now", the offspring of Mort and Ysabel is grown up Susan). So well never see young Esk from Equal Rites again, except she got lost in a dungeon dimension.[/color:e985b2b5fe]

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A cameo would be interesting...

And Agnes... I suppose she was to fill the gap Magrat left. I -again- seem to remember Nanny Ogg and Mistress Weatherwax talking about the fact that Magrat was now busy Queening and all, plus being a mother. (It was more the Queening, though, it seems, being a mother didn't stop Nanny after all.)

[quote:f957893f29="Hsing"]And Agnes... I suppose she was to fill the gap Magrat left. I -again- seem to remember Nanny Ogg and Mistress Weatherwax talking about the fact that Magrat was now busy Queening and all, plus being a mother. (It was more the Queening, though, it seems, being a mother didn't stop Nanny after all.)[/quote:f957893f29]

In a witches coven there's The Maiden, The Mother and [size=9:f957893f29]the Crone[/size:f957893f29].
With Magrat now being a "Mother", and Nanny not willing to give up her spot, they needed a new "Maiden", so they recruited Agnes/Perdita X.

Of course Granny is technically a Maiden and will never be "The other one", so Agnes is never named as the Maiden.
Just remember that Nanny and Granny can bend the rules as they see fit and need someone to push around.


Edit: Spling

No, no, Granny is a crone. She just won't let anyone [i:44329f7dc1]say[/i:44329f7dc1] it. Her virginity has nothing to do with it.

The Witch books were great..... I just love the way Granny is....

Margrat was actually one of the characters I disliked in the Discworld series and I welcome the change Agnes brings.....
And Agnes has really proven herself to be capable in Carpe Juglum.....

[quote:7979f490b1="Ba"]No, no, Granny is a crone. She just won't let anyone [i:7979f490b1]say[/i:7979f490b1] it. Her virginity has nothing to do with it.[/quote:7979f490b1]

I always felt that Granny could legitimately say she wasn't the crone because of her virginity. As Nanny doesn't want to be the crone either they tend to avoid the subject.

I seem to have a language problem here... According to my dictionary, a crone is basically an old woman. What makes you a crone?

Crone is more "Evil old woman", I think...

Let me look it up:
Dictionary.com gives these definitions:
[quote:1ededdd5bb]An ugly, withered old woman; a hag.
[i:1ededdd5bb]
[Middle English, from Old North French carogne, carrion, cantankerous woman, from Vulgar Latin *carnia, carrion, from Latin car, carn-, flesh. See sker-1 in Indo-European Roots.][/i:1ededdd5bb][/quote:1ededdd5bb]

[quote:1ededdd5bb][b:1ededdd5bb]Crone[/b:1ededdd5bb]

n : an ugly evil-looking old woman [syn: hag, beldam, beldame, witch][/quote:1ededdd5bb]

Thanks for the info as well as the link!

after reading hsings spoiler im wondering how thingy got into that place, its kinda hard typing this without spoiling it for someone, when they only "studied" at...urm...the other place

Hm... I don't quite get it. Could you type it out spoiler proof, maybe? (How: change the colour of your font so that it matches the background colour of your post.)

I just love Nanny, I think she may just be my favourite character in the diskworld books. I can't wait to have a few kids and find myself an evil cat. Unfortunately, I'm quite satisfied with my one husband, so I'll have to skip that part, but apart from that, I AM an Ogg.

DO NOT READ!!! lol
[color=white:8ce75c71d1]ok...just wondering how Esk ended up in DD if she was only "studying", really more sort of cleaning, at the UU [/color:8ce75c71d1]

DD = Dungeon Dimensions?
If yes, well, she didn't, at least as far as we know, end up there.
The word "except" was to meant to be used like "unless"... as a subjunctive. Language blunder from my side to use "except" instead of "unless", I guess.

I love the Witch series. Terry makes it clear that the life philosophy should be examined from a more ''natural'' point of view-in that case-the point of view of Granny,Nanny and Magrat. Witches Abroad and Lords and Ladies are two of my favourite novels. Long live the porkupine(porcupine)I am not sure for the spelling