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* The Other Mother – The creature that created much of the Other World and the main villain of the novel.

She looks similar to Coraline's real mother but taller and thinner, with long black hair that seems to move by itself, black button eyes, paper-white skin, and extremely long, twitchy fingers with long dark red nails.

She cannot create, but only copy, twist and change things from the real world when constructing her version of it.

She collects children, with whom she quickly becomes bored or frustrated, and imprisons them behind a magical mirror, slowly sucking the life from them.

She is referred to several times as " the beldam ", a Middle English word meaning " grandmother ," " ugly old woman ," or " hag ".