During his walk there, he meets a gluttonous but friendly boy named Bruno, who is pulled away by his mother. The next day, Charlie takes Daisy and a rope to do some training at a grand hall.
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While there, Agatha teaches Charlie how to tell a witch from an ordinary woman: real witches have claws instead of fingernails, which they hide by wearing gloves are bald, which they hide by wearing wigs that give them rashes have square feet with no toes, which they hide by wearing sensible shoes have a purple tinge in their pupils and have a powerful sense of smell, which they use to sniff out children. Frantically, they decide to stay in a nearby hotel where her cousin Eston is the executive chef. Agatha says that witches never leave once they find a child. She says a witch cursed her childhood friend Alice into spending the rest of her life as a chicken. The boy is approached by a witch trying to lure him with a snake and a caramel, but Agatha calls him, and the witch disappears.Īfter telling Agatha about the encounter, Charlie learns that the witches are in fact real. One day, Charlie goes to a store to buy a box of nails to train Daisy and to build a house for her as well. Gradually, Charlie is cheered up by Agatha who buys him a pet mouse whom he names Daisy.
In 1968, a young boy named Charlie Hansen goes to live with his grandmother, Agatha in Demopolis, Alabama after a car accident kills his parents in Chicago.