Fluffy Tamer: Where Greebo is concerned, anyway. And even then, she's not above throwing a boot at his head. The card appears for the final time in The Shepherd's Crown... where Granny, knowing she's about to die, changes the message to I IS PROBABLY DEAD and places it by her bedside before she meets Death.

Esmerelda " Esme" Weatherwax (also Granny Weatherwax or Mistress Weatherwax) is a fictional character from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. She is a witch and member of the Lancre coven. She is the self-appointed guardian of her small country, and frequently defends it against supernatural powers. She is one of the Discworld series's main protagonists, having major roles in seven novels. Extreme Doormat: Comes with being a wet hen. What little self-confidence she has tends to curl up and die in the face of the overwhelming force that is Granny Weatherwax glowering at her. The last vestiges of this fade during Lords and Ladies, with her reappearance in Carpe Jugulum demonstrating that rather than being a wet hen, becoming a Mama Bear means that, at most, she's only slightly damp. Foil: To the wizards. While wizards have notions of tradition and honor and are aloof and distant and easily muddled up, the witches are sharper, shrewder, keep a clear watch on events and are more than ready to fight tooth and claw with whatever they’ve got handy.The three distinct phases of witchery are the Maiden, the Mother and... the Other One, since calling a witch "The Crone" is just begging for Disproportionate Retribution. Neville is a thief and (prior to the events of Maskerade) stole all the lead from the roof of the Ankh-Morpork Opera House. Afterward he hid at Mrs. Palm's establishment. When Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax visit Ankh-Morpork in Maskerade they also seek lodging with Mrs. Palm, and are surprised to learn that this is a brothel rather than a boarding house. Mama Bear: After becoming a mother, she's notably become this. Agnes/Perdita comment on it, noting that mothers aren't 'wet' as Magrat used to be, merely 'slightly damp', and Perdita isn't at all sure she likes the new "mother" Magrat. Suspiciously Specific Denial: Narration repeatedly notes that witches do not have leaders, and Granny Weatherwax is at the top of the hierarchy witches do not have.

My Beloved Smother: Nanny Ogg is a loving, doting, and very controlling matriarch to all her family. Her daughters-in-law, however, tend to more view her as an Evil Matriarch, as mentioned above. I Was Quite a Looker: She may be a wrinkly, implicitly somewhat portly old lady now, but in her youth she was a very attractive (and very sexually liberated) woman. The "Mona Ogg" suggests she and Leonard of Quirm were very taken with each other, for instance. She held onto it enough that she had at least one child in her late 40s/early 50s (thanks to the events of Wyrd Sisters, time got a little wobbly up around Lancre). A stage adaptation by Hana Burešová and Štěpán Otčenášek (partly using adaptation by Stephen Briggs) premiered in Divadlo v Dlouhé, Prague in April 2006. [2] Pratchett attended the closing performance five years later. [3] Reception [ edit ]

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I Am Not Left-Handed: Granny rarely uses actual magic, partly because it's her nature, partly because most problems can be solved by simpler means, partly because if she fears that using her powers too much will drive her evil/insane, and partly because it's much more fun when people under/overestimate her. She is still, however, a really powerful witch. Like reality warpingly, time-bendingly, mind-shatteringly powerful, so you don't want to become so big a threat that she decides to cast a devastating spell while making it seem effortless (mostly because she hides the strain until she's out of sight from the audience). Strawman Emotional: Makes situations worse by thinking along traditional fairy-tale lines (e.g. elves are good, magic can solve all problems...) in contrast to Granny's pragmatism. Nay-Theist: She doesn't believe in any gods. Not because she doesn't think they exist; she knows they do. She doesn't believe in them because she thinks it would just encourage them and would rather be self-sufficient than rely on the good graces of someone else, least of all a god. According to Maskerade, where an attempt by Mrs. Plinge to lay her out cold with a full bottle of champagne to the skull merely leaves her woozy for a few seconds. Apparently, there's Dwarf in the Ogg ancestry and that means "a skull you could go mining with". Brawn Hilda: The fact that she's a very big, beefy, solidly built sort of girl comes up a lot. Especially since her appearance in Maskerade has her play the part of the large operatic singer. It's justified, as the Ramtops are basically "Northern European Mountain Country" and so this is actually considered an ideal to look for in a wife; a classically pretty woman might look sexier, but a solid Lancre girl both has the muscle to handle the hardships of life in the mountains and is probably a Supreme Chef— cooking lasts longer than kissing, as the traditional Lancrastian saying goes.