Lords and Ladies is an excellent book through which to get acquainted with Nanny Ogg, although I’d recommend reading Witches Abroad first to get some of the context, especially as it also has some brilliant Nanny moments. Nanny Ogg flies in the face of prim and proper gender stereotypes – a beloved mum and nana who loves beer, food, and sex, and makes no apology for any of it, she’s the kind of person I’d love to go for a drink with, or have standing beside me when I had to face down a particularly sadistic elf. That’s where her best friend Nanny Ogg comes in. Granny Weatherwax is impressive, but you can’t say that she has all that much fun. Ever since, one of my guiding principles in life is: If Granny Weatherwax saw me do this, would she give me an approving nod, or a stony, silent glare? I even took her along on my very first protest march: Before I read her, I’d never felt awe towards a character in a book. Granny Weatherwax is one of those characters you can’t believe is fictional, because she just feels too important. A master of mental strength and skill, and a no-nonsense badass who gets the job done, Granny Weatherwax first appears in Equal Rites, but she really comes into her own from Wyrd Sisters onwards, and she’s at her most impressive fighting vampires in Carpe Jugulum. Over the course of the Discworld series, Pratchett introduced us to many different witches, all of whom are my heroines in a variety of ways.įirst and foremost, there’s the most important of the leaders that the witches don’t have – Mistress Esmerelda Weatherwax herself. In his stories, Terry Pratchett taught me that witches are the people who think about the world a little differently, and that made me want to be one of them. I love witches, and I love the Discworld witches best of all.
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