She is mentor to Petulia Gristle, good with animals, and is apparently a pig-borer, cow-shouter and all-round veterinary witch.

By the events of Wintersmith Petulia has gained considerable respect in the Ramtops for her abilities with animals, particularly pigs, which are said to rival those of Granny Weatherwax herself, although what Granny would say on the subject is open to debate.

However, Petulia dislikes the way Annagramma refers to her as the ' pig witch ', because she feels that there is " too much pig and not enough witch " in Annagramma's description.

Petulia does not appear in I Shall Wear Midnight, but she is mentioned briefly as being an expert " pig borer " ( literally boring a pig to death as a humane alternative to more violent means of slaughter ) and that she is engaged to be married.

Grinding Walls is Dive's soundtrack for a 1995 film by the Italian band Sigillum S in collaboration with multimedia artist Petulia Mattioli aka Koma.

Knight's feature films include The Group ( 1966 ), The Dutchman ( 1966 ), Petulia ( 1968 ), The Rain People ( 1969 ) and As Good as It Gets ( 1997 ), and Elevator ( 2011 ), in which she plays one of several people trapped in a Wall Street elevator with someone who has a bomb.

His first film role was 1968's Petulia, but his big movie break came in 1970, when he created the role of lackadaisical Blake in the 1970 Robert Altman cult film MASH.

The film's release was delayed by 6 months as Richard Lester went on to work on Petulia ( 1968 ), shortly after completing How I Won the War.

Petulia ( also with a score by John Barry ), as well as the darkly surreal anti-war movie How I Won the War co-starring John Lennon, which he referred to as an " anti-anti-war movie "; Lester noted that anti-war movies still took the concept of war seriously, contrasting " bad " war crimes with wars fought for " good " causes like the liberation from Nazism or, at that time, Communism, whereas he set out to deconstruct it to show war as fundamentally opposed to humanity.

Later, she played Thomas Hardy's heroine Bathsheba Everdene in Schlesinger's Far from the Madding Crowd ( 1967 ), and the title role, Petulia Danner, in Richard Lester's Petulia ( 1968 ) with George C. Scott.

After settling into the cottage, Tiffany goes to a group of apprentice witches her age with Petulia.

In Italian stories O ' Hara has a wife called Petulia.

In the following years, she starred in Fahrenheit 451 ( 1966 ), Far from the Madding Crowd ( 1967 ), Petulia ( 1968 ), McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971 ), Don't Look Now ( 1973 ), and Heaven Can Wait ( 1978 ).

Turner later received accolades for her work, including a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for her adaptation of Petulia ( 1968 ), an Emmy nomination for the 1977 television movie The War Between the Tates, and the Christopher Award for the 1987 television movie Eye on the Sparrow.

Tiffany and fellow coven members Lucy Warbeck and Petulia Gristle eventually acquit themselves well as witches ; Annagramma, however, finds that her training, under the tutelage of Letice Earwig, had not been enough to prepare her for the reality of witching life, and her onetime coven subordinates agree to help her get on her feet.

With all respect to a fine young man, Mr. Roy is not able to provide these necessaries ''.

The cyclist, a sufficiently commonplace young fellow, is not named but identified simply as `` Life '' -- that and a license number, which Piepsam uses in addressing him.

The young William Faulkner in New Orleans in the 1920's impressed the novelist Hamilton Basso as obviously conscious of being a Southerner, and there is no evidence that since then he has ever considered himself any less so.

`` This is no place for a young girl '', he said.

The pessimism of the young is defiant, anxious to confess or even exaggerate its ostensible gloom, and so exuberant as to reveal the fact that it regards its ability to face up to the awful truth as more than enough to compensate for the awfulness of that truth.

If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.

But Krim's complaint is important because not only in New York, but in other cities and in universities throughout this country, young and not, so young men at

The probable answer is that it will do so just as long as Russia can exercise a veto in favor of chaos and until young African nations wake up to the truth that out of false pride they are visiting ruin on Central Africa.

She has studied and observed and she is convinced that her young man is going to be endlessly enchanting.

but I am also a young, able and willing girl who wants to study the Chinese language but is not old enough.

The welfare of citizens, old and young, is the responsibility of the community, not only of that part of it that rides the Aj.

One of the greatest obstacles to the achievement of this goal is the lack of trained men and women with the skill to teach the young and assist in the operation of development projects -- men and women with the capacity to cope with the demands of swiftly evolving economics, and with the dedication to put that capacity to work in the villages, the mountains, the towns and the factories of dozens of struggling nations.

To be fit, one has to start early with young children, and today the only person who really reaches such children is the teacher of dance.

At the same time, however, I availed myself of the services of that great English actor and master of make-up, Sir Gauntley Pratt, to do a `` quickie '' called The Mystery of the Mad Marquess, in which I played a young American girl who inherits a haunted castle on the English moors which is filled with secret passages and sliding panels and, unbeknownst to anyone, is still occupied by an eccentric maniac.

By the middle of the summer, many of the larvae apparently receive such a good diet that it is `` optimal '', and it is then that young queens begin to appear.

Other herpetologists have ascertained that in the northern United States the prairie rattlesnake may not give first birth until it is four or even five years old, and that the young may be born every other year, rather than annually.

Alphonse R. Hoge's measurements of several very young specimens from Brazil suggest that at birth the female is slightly larger than the male.

In I knew you when you were a child, and you were pretty then dominant stress on then implies that the young woman spoken to is still pretty.

It is obviously a young man's poem, written out of books and not out of experience ; ;

When served in a psychological atmosphere that allows young bodies to assimilate the greatest good from what they eat because they are free from tension, a foundation is laid for a high level of health that releases the children from physical handicaps to participate with enjoyment in the work assignments, the athletic programs and the most important phase, the educational opportunities.

The wife is likely to be young, sophisticated, smart as a whip -- often a girl who has sacrificed a promising career for marriage.

But it is our health -- more precious than all the money in the world -- that these modern witch doctors with their fake therapeutic gadgets are gambling away.

The situation in which we find ourselves is brought out with dramatic force in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, which deals with the Salem witch trials.

Minerva is also the first name of Professor McGonagall, Harry Potter's Head of House, and a very wise witch of Hogwarts, always concerned with the safety of her students.

After demanding Henry and his men be set free ( as he knew Henry was innocent, and his persecution was simply a witch hunt ) and killing a deadite in full view of everyone, Ash is celebrated as a hero.

The famous Drudenhaus ( witch prison ), built in 1627, is no longer standing today ; however, detailed accounts of some cases, such as that of Johannes Junius, remain.

It is also reported by some that witch doctors sometimes use the body parts of children in their medicine.

In Greek mythology, Circe (; Greek Κίρκη Kírkē " falcon ") is a minor goddess of magic ( or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress ), described in Homer's Odyssey as " The loveliest of all immortals ".

1678, Harvard College ; A. M. 1681, honorary doctorate 1710, University of Glasgow ) was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author and pamphleteer ; he is often remembered for his role in the Salem witch trials.

Bernard Rosenthal laments that Mather is so often portrayed as the rabid witch hunter.

A hereditary witch, Budapest is frequently considered the mother of modern the Dianic Wiccan tradition.

It is quite plausible that Beaumanoir, like many nobles of the time, would have considered himself above the law and entitled to execute a witch in any way that he chose.

* 1692 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for " certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries ".

* 1692 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts.

Grandi called the curve versoria in Latin and suggested the term versiera for Italian, possibly as a pun: ' versoria ' is a nautical term, " sheet ", while versiera / aversiera is " she-devil ", " witch ", from Latin Adversarius, an alias for " devil " ( Adversary of God ).

Primarily known for her work in Egyptology, which was " the core of her academic career ," she is also known for her propagation of the Witch-cult hypothesis, the theory that the witch trials in the Early Modern period of Christianized Europe and North America were an attempt to extinguish a surviving pre-Christian, pagan religion devoted to a Horned God.

This practice may stem from the influence of Gerald Gardner who wrote ( ostensibly quoting a witch, but perhaps in his own words ): The witches tell me ' The law always has been that power must be passed from man to woman or from woman to man, the only exception being when a mother initiates her daughter or a father his son, because they are part of themselves ' ( the reason is that great love is apt to occur between people who go through the rites together.

He had a deep hatred and detestation of homosexuality, which he regarded as a disgusting perversion and a flagrant transgression of natural law .... ' There are no homosexual witches, and it is not possible to be a homosexual and a witch ' Gerald almost shouted.

Also, though the witch ideal is to form perfect couples of people ideally suited to each other, nowadays this is not always possible ; the right couples go together and the rest go singly and do as they can.

One of the main characters in US soap opera Passions is Tabitha Lenox, a 300-year-old witch.

* 1692 – Giles Corey is pressed to death after refusing to plead in the Salem witch trials.

After having severely indicted all of the witch hunt aspects of their campaign against sincere philosophers, he then writes of his hope that in the future this work is pursued more seriously and with dignity at the level of the issues involved.

The alcohol pushes the narrator into fits of intemperance and violence, to the point at which everything angers him – Pluto in particular, who is always by his side, becomes the malevolent witch who haunts him even while avoiding his presence.