The Witches and the Grinnygog


The Witches and the Grinnygog is a children's novel by the writer Dorothy Edwards, published in 1981[1] and shortlisted for that year's Whitbread Prize for a children's book.

For the television series of the same name, see The Witches and the Grinnygog (TV series)

The Witches and the Grinnygog is a story of pre-Christian traditions, considered in the middle ages to be witchcraft, surviving into the modern world, and deals with various themes related to English folklore, ghosts and time slips.

Plot summary

When an ancient English church is moved to a new site, one stone – a strange statue, the Grinnygog – is found to be missing. It is accidentally found by a woman who, not realizing its significance, gives it to her elderly father as a pseudo garden gnome. Shortly thereafter, three eccentric old women (who seem to be looking for something lost or hidden many years before) arrive in the town.

gollark: Like the internet, and how it's based on a pile of messy hacks which barely hold together well enough to route traffic and everything.
gollark: A lot of social structures we have around probably came about through random chance, convenience or compromise rather than principled ground-up design.
gollark: But at most points I don't think most people went around getting to decide on exactly what their values were and building societies to best embody them.
gollark: It's probably some complex bidirectional thing.
gollark: If your ethical system is "the greatest good is maximizing the number of paperclips in existence", it's entirely sensible to try and overthrow existing society to make paperclips.

References
  1. "The Witches and the Grinnygog". OCLC Worldcat. Retrieved 6 April 2014.


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