Top Ten Witches of All Time: Honorable Mention Witches

The Witches that didn’t make it.

When I started writing this blog series, I knew I would face a dilemma. There were a lot of great witches to choose from! Not a bad dilemma. What followed was my personal top ten witches, which is certainly not official by any stretch. Here are the witches that didn’t make my list. Maybe some of them should have. Maybe there are others I didn’t even think of.

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Aislin from The Devil’s Prophet

Ok, I know I’m tooting my horn here, but I couldn’t resist. I loved writing this character. Named after a Norse goddess, Aislin is raised by a family of ages old witches whose heirloom is Dr. John Dee’s famous crystal ball. Oh, and by the way, her first cousin is the Anti-Christ. As he takes over Europe and Asia, she flees with her crystal ball to America, where she has foreseen the rise of unknowing Col. Robert Franklin, the one man who can stop the Anti-Christ. Problem is he just wants to find his missing children and he knows she knows the secret to their whereabouts.

Bette Midler in Hocus Pocus

With perhaps the worst makeup job in movie history, Bette played the part perfectly and pulled a horrid storyline out of the…

Blair Witch

Freaky story if there ever was one! This movie crept me out the first time I watched it. Not because I believed it was real, but because of the way it was filmed. A lot of movies are made this way now.

Jeanne Dixon

She was so famous she was called to a meeting with President Franklin D. Roosevelt to do a private reading. She revealed to him he was going to die, and die he did a short time later. She also is credited with predicting JFK’s assassination. She is remembered as America’s Prophet.

Joan of Arc

Ok, I know, she was technically a saint, not a witch. That being said, she is the only women on this list, or the top ten for that matter, who was actually burned at the stake for being a witch. The damning evidence: She claimed direct communication with God. Sadly, that claim has gotten more than a few people martyred. Her real sin: Challenging the male authority. That has also gotten more than few people killed.

Melissa Joan Heart in Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

A teen sitcom, my kids loved to watch it. It had some cool elements like a talking cat named Salem and awkward romance drama that teenagers easily relate to. Sabrina is kind of like their Samantha from Bewitched.

Olympias, mother of Alexander the Great

What a great story here, right? She weaved her wicked web on the king of Phillip, King of Macedonia and produced an heir that would conquer the world and leave his mark throughout history, even  to this day. A devout member of the snake-worshiping cult of Dionysus, she dreamt of a lightning bolt striking her stomach and exploding the night Alexander was conceived. She later told Alexander that his father was really Zeus and had him schooled by Aristotle. He became an unstoppable military leader the likes of which the world had never seen...and has not seen since.

Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as the Owens sisters in Practical Magic.

A great story of two sisters fighting of a curse that haunts their witchy family. All the women in family who use witchcraft lose their husbands to untimely deaths. So, as the story goes, they try not to be witches! Hilarious!

Selena Gomez in The Wizards of Waverly Place.

Get the same kind of feeling from Selena’s character of Alex as I do with Sabrina, but my kids like it so I have to throw it in here. J I have to give Selena credit though; she is very talented and will have a long, enchanted career. Now, if she could just make Justin Bieber disappear...

Sybil Leek

Another of my favorites that just missed the cut, Sybil was as famous in her day as any woman alive. She came to prominence in her native Britain after ages old anti-witchcraft laws were repealed.  Coming from a long pedigree of witchcraft, she sort of inspired my character, Aislin. She became a media darling when she moved to the USA, appearing in newspapers, magazines and television. She was admittedly related to the evil Aleister Crowley.

The Witch from Hansel and Gretel

What is not to like about a witch that lives in a house made of cake and candy? The fact that she likes the flesh of children more than cake and candy for one! Unfortunately for this witch of lore, she was easily outsmarted by young Hansel and Gretal, who promptly made witch roast of her.

The Witch from Sleeping Beauty

Maleficent is this witch’s name and she is outraged the king didn’t invite her to bless his daughter, the princess Aurora. Out of spite, she curses the baby to die on her sixteenth birthday. Rival good witches hide her with a peasant couple. They also soften the curse so that instead of dying she is doomed to fall into a deep sleep until her true love kisses her. Problem is her true love thinks she is a peasant girl. True love wins in this one though and the evil witch gets turned to ash. Look for Maleficent to get her own live action movie this summer, played by the lovely, Angelina Jolie, who ironically, also played Alexander the Great's mother on the silver screen.

The Witch from Snow White

It was difficult keeping this witch, simply known as the Queen, out of the top ten. She has everything you would want in a witch. Beautiful, smart, spiteful, jealous, rich, powerful, owns a talking magick mirror and uses poisonous apples. The only reason I kept her out was because she was so similar to the witch from Sleeping Beauty.

The Witch from Rosemary’s Baby

Minnie Castevet, played by actress Ruth Gordon, was the witch that tricked Rosemary into wearing a dreadful tanis root charm that makes her unable to stand food and eating poison chocolate mousse so Satan can rape her in a black mass ritual. She conceives a son, Adrian. Poor Rosemary, played by Mia Farrow, finally discovers the witches ruse and tries to escape, only to fall right back into their trap. Great movie, creepy as Hell, with one of the dizziest witches ever, but boy was she clever!

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