OPEN POST: Favorite Halloween Witch Edition!

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Here at Peckerwood Manor, Endora is our unofficial official witch. But there's many witches to celebrate today. Who's your hands-down absolute favorite? Veronica Lake in "I Married A Witch?" Angelica Houston in "The Witches?" Fairuza Balk in "The Craft?" There's no wrong answer!


No, really. No wrong answer at all. Happy Halloweenie, tricklets! 

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