Witchcraft in written fiction

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's fantasy novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their home by a cyclone. Upon her arrival in the magical world of Oz, she learns she cannot return home until she has destroyed the Wicked Witch of the West.

novel series by Philip Pullman

Japanese media franchise

1998 novel by Louis Sachar

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is a 1995 dark fantasy novel by American writer Gregory Maguire, with illustrations by Douglas Smith. It is the first novel in The Wicked Years series, and was followed by Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz.

short story by H. P. Lovecraft

1835 horror novella by Nikolai Gogol

novel series by Lloyd Alexander

character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

Japanese light novel series

character in the Discworld series of books

Russian fantasy novel series by Dmitri Yemets

1939 novel by Alexander Volkov

novel trilogy by Philip Pullman

fictional character from Discworld

Japanese light novel series

novel series created by L. J. Smith

novel by Soman Chainani

Sycorax is an unseen character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611). She is a vicious and powerful witch and the mother of Caliban, one of the few native inhabitants of the island on which Prospero, the hero of the play, is stranded.

novel by Lloyd Alexander

character group from Terry Pratchett's Discworld-novels

Chrestomanci, sometimes branded The Worlds of Chrestomanci, is a heptalogy of children's fantasy books written by British author Diana Wynne Jones, published from 1977 to 2006. In the context of the parallel universe setting of the books, Chrestomanci refers to both the British government office that is responsible for supervising the use of magic and Chrestomanci Castle in southern England, which is both residence and headquarters.

characters in Macbeth

work of fan fiction that inspired various derivative works