# The Top Witches **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2016, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-witches/743097 "2016-01-14T01:59:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-witches/743097/61 "2016-01-14T17:37:14Z")
Whoa! No love for [Kim Novak](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TesRoMisEw) as Gillian Holroyd in “Bell Book and Candle?” ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-witches/743097/62 "2016-01-14T17:40:08Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > Whoa! No love for [Kim Novak](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TesRoMisEw) as Gillian Holroyd in “Bell Book and Candle?” Yeahuh, on the previous page. She was a looker. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-witches/743097/63 "2016-01-14T18:19:27Z")
> [@lost4life](#): > > Nitpick - It’s Dr. Mumbai. I never heard of Dr. Mumbai, but I’ve certainly heard of Dr. Bombay. 🙂 And isn’t there a rum, or maybe a gin, called Bombay? ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-witches/743097/64 "2016-01-14T19:12:41Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I never heard of Dr. Mumbai, but I’ve certainly heard of Dr. Bombay. 🙂 And isn’t there a rum, or maybe a gin, called Bombay? Woosh. And a very well-done one at that. (Mumbai is the official name for Bombay) ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-witches/743097/65 "2016-01-14T19:16:18Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I don’t think the OP is looking for “Top Wtches You’d Like to Bang.” > > If he is, I’d like to retract my nomination. She makes me twitch. She’s smart, powerful, and hot. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-witches/743097/66 "2016-01-14T19:38:33Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Ahhh; Wit CHAY Woman. As long as we’re outside the box, there’s \ _Rhiannon_. I heard somewhere it’s about a Welsh witch. > > Thinking outside the tent, there’s the Blair Witch, who is quite a bad ass. Oooooh, in that case, should we include Stevie? Urban legend has it that she was a white witch. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-witches/743097/67 "2016-01-14T21:02:58Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > Oooooh, in that case, should we include Stevie? Urban legend has it that she was a white witch. 😉 Stevie Nicks? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-witches/743097/68 "2016-01-14T21:15:27Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > Stevie Nicks? [Documentary evidence.](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xc2hjy_lucy-lawless_shortfilms) ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-witches/743097/69 "2016-01-14T22:28:32Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > Stevie Nicks? Nope. Stevie Wonder when no one is looking. \< hikes skirt and trances cat \> ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-witches/743097/70 "2016-01-14T22:34:27Z")
Stevie Nicks has consistently denied that she’s a witch or Wiccan. Although she clearly has more than a passing familiarity with modern witchcraft, she says she cultivated the image during her Fleetwood Mac days to “put on a good show”. She puts herself in the “spiritual but not religious” category. [What are the political views and Religious Beliefs of Stevie Nicks? - Hollowverse](http://hollowverse.com/stevie-nicks/) ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-witches/743097/71 "2016-01-14T22:37:17Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > Nope. Stevie Wonder when no one is looking. \< hikes skirt and trances cat \> Well hell, if it’s Stevie Wonder, not even he is looking. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-witches/743097/72 "2016-01-14T22:50:06Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Stevie Nicks has consistently denied that she’s a witch or Wiccan. Although she clearly has more than a passing familiarity with modern witchcraft, she says she cultivated the image during her Fleetwood Mac days to “put on a good show”. She puts herself in the “spiritual but not religious” category. [What are the political views and Religious Beliefs of Stevie Nicks? - Hollowverse](http://hollowverse.com/stevie-nicks/) I know, hence the winking smilie. My husband was a huge fan, so I heard all about what Ms. Nicks was and was not. Mainly, not under the covers with him. > [@Nobody](#): > > Well hell, if it’s Stevie Wonder, not even he is looking. 🆒 I bow at your superior wit. Touché! ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-witches/743097/73 "2016-01-14T22:53:27Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > I bow at your superior wit. Touché! Why thank you kind lady. Usually when I post something I think is cleaver it turns out I’m the only one who thinks that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-witches/743097/74 "2016-01-14T22:56:09Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > Granny would be #1 for me, or better still the Granny Weatherwax/Nanny Ogg/Magrat coven. Or the Granny Weatherwax/Nanny Ogg/Agnes Nitt (Perdita X) coven. Magrat being all busy with the queening and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-witches/743097/75 "2016-01-14T22:57:31Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > As awesome as she is, I enjoy reading about Tiffany Aching more. (For those not familiar with the series, Tiffany is a shepherd’s daughter whose approach to magic is unflinchingly pragmatic; they’re coming-of-age stories as only Pratchett could manage). I know some don’t like them, but the Tiffany Aching books have become my favorite Discworld novels, especially _I Shall Wear Midnight_. Beautiful writing. “What was it that Granny Weatherwax had said once? ‘Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.’ And right now it would happen if you thought there was a thing called a father, and a thing called a mother, and a thing called a daughter, and a thing called a cottage, and told yourself that if you put them all together you had a thing called a happy family.” ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-witches/743097/76 "2016-01-14T23:19:05Z")
Tiffany Aching, Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg. There aren’t any other contenders. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-witches/743097/77 "2016-01-14T23:26:03Z")
Angelique from Dark Shadows. Morgane le Fay from the King Arthur stories Adalind and Catherine Schade from Grimm ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-witches/743097/78 "2016-01-15T00:07:40Z")
[Erika](http://s1.zerochan.net/Erica.Hartmann.240.436927.jpg) [and Ursula](http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/full-deck/images/e/e8/Women_strike_witches_military_animal_ears_erica_hartmann_desktop_1000x862_hd-wallpaper-627944.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130710013339) [Hartmann](http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/rwby/images/b/b4/Erica_hartmann_by_dekodere-d4n3kpu.png/revision/latest?cb=20140809175532) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-witches/743097/79 "2016-01-15T00:38:56Z")
[Head Witch Della](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_S6OLmER6yq8/TKs5ZP9SHZI/AAAAAAAABbg/F9w2gDPbER4/s1600/della.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-witches/743097/80 "2016-01-15T01:40:47Z")
Obscure, yes. Angel Blake from “The Blood on Satan’s Claw”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-witches/743097.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-top-witches/743097.md?page=5)