Glinda the Good Witch and the Wicked Witch of the West From Shakespeare’s wayward sisters in Macbeth to the White Witch Jadis in The Chronicles of Naria, witchcraft has played a significant role onscreen and in literature. Most famous of the fictional witches are Glinda and Miss Almira Gulch, the Good Witch and Wicked Witch of the West in L Frank Baum’s celebrated The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, re-released this month.
Historically, a witch is, ‘a woman claiming or popula...