Grand High Witch

The Grand High Witch of All the World, often shortened to the Grand High Witch, is the main antagonist of the book and film, ''The Witches. ''She is the ruler of the witches and hates children so much she has made it her life's work to get rid of them.

She booked into a hotel in England, along with all the England witches, but in a disguise to hide her real, hideous face. She went under the name Eva Ernst. During her stay at the hotel, she spotted a boy named Brruno Jenkins. She feeds him a chocolate bar off-screen after.

The next day, she holds a meeting with the witches. Unbeknownst to her or any of the other witches, another boy named Luke has hidden in the same room. As he watches, she removes her mask and tells the witches to remove their wigs, gloves, and shoes. She scolds the witches for not disposing of enough children, and that there are still much more. She then kills one witch who had expressed doubt that they could kill every child. She explains her plan to feed children contaminated chocolate bars, turning them into mice. She reveals the chocolate bar she fed Bruno was one of the magic bars, and he soon turns into a mouse before both Luke and the witches eyes. They are about to leave when they smell Luke. They catch him and turn him into a mouse as well. They then try to step on him but he escapes.

Luke meets Bruno and they reach Luke's grandmother Helga, who had encountered witches and knows a lot about them. They form a plan. Luke sneaks into the Grand High Witch's room and steals a vile of the potion before putitng it in the witches soup. The witches eat the soup and begin to turn into mice. The Grand High Witch sees Helga and recognizes her as a previous foe. She advances towards her but Bruno bites her and the potion takes affect. She turns into a mouse and is killed by the manager.