The Witches are a secret society of witches with evil magic and the titular villains of both the Roald Dahl book and film adaption of the same name. They are actually demons who have come to Earth and for thousands of years they have made it their duty to rid the world of children, which they loath due to children smelling bad to them. Portrayal of witches were considerably dark for a children's book, as they were all guilty of casting harmful spells of children, which included trapping them inside a painting or polymorphing them into animals. They would usually go after a child once per week.