As Disney has recently reminded all of us, we are halfway to Halloween and, of course, we have no idea what Mickey's Not-So-Scary and other similar events might look like in the new theme park environment but I felt it was time to explore an iconic element of the holiday that is too often ignored: Disney witches.
The world of Disney is filled with a variety of witches from the Sanderson sisters in Hocus Pocus to the evil queen who turns into an old hag in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Eglantine Price from Bedknobs and Broomsticks to Ursula in The Little Mermaid to Magica de Spell who plagues Scrooge McDuck to the traditional broom flying, pointy-hatted witch in the 1932 Silly Symphony Babes in the Woods.
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