Wild Witch Lady (Donovan)

NAME/ORIGIN

Character name
 Wild Witch Lady
Song/Album
 "Wild Witch Lady" / Cosmic Wheels
Act
 Donovan
Writer
Donovan 
Release Date
 1973


ABILITIES

Powers
 -General magic
"She's a wild witch lady"
-Ability to alter others' bodies
"She make your fingernails curl"
"She make an old man young"
-Toxic bodily fluids
"She got acid saliva"
Skills
 Ability to cause insanity
"She make a young man crazy"
Attributes
 Eats humans, preferably young and male
"She eat boys for breakfast"
"She suck up all your insides"
Vulnerabilities
N/A
Formidability
Mild. Can only affect one person at a time, presumably in close proximity. She must touch to kill.
Attractiveness
 "She drive King Kong wild"
Source
"She's a voodoo child"
Goals
To seduce, kill, and eat men


POSSESSIONS

Weapons
 "She got poison lipstick"
Amulets
 N/A, but most voodoo involves some amulets
Objects
 N/A
Clothing
 "Black leather kid"
Vehicles
 N/A
Dwelling
 She's "wild," so this may refer to a rural dwelling
Milieu
 Places where voodoo is common (speculation)


BIOGRAPHY

Gender
 Female
Age
 "Young", so an adolescent-- 18 at most
Physique
 "She got a reptile tongue"
Ethnicity
 "She's a goblin girl"
Origin
 N/A
Ancestry
 Goblin
Profession
 Witch
Education
 N/A but likely limited to magic
SES
low... but since she lives in the sticks and her food is free, her expenses are low, too.
Relationships
 None with men
Pets
 N/A


PERSONALITY

Morality
 "She's a sleazy Miss Teasy"
Intro/extrovert
 extrovert. highly flirtatious
Intelligence
 high enough to work spells
Emotions
 hunger, of various kinds
Sanity
 possibly sane. This might be entirely normal goblin behavior.
Enemies
men, if any have escaped her and a brave enough to risk coming back to kill her. Perhaps women widowed by her try to avenge their men? It is unclear what affect her magic, or seductive power, has on women.


Narrative Function
 Antagonist
Other Notes
 This female goblin feasts on young men. So much so that when she encounters an older one, she can reverse his aging process with her voodoo magic so that he becomes edible.
She is evidently humanoid enough to make men think they could have sex with her; perhaps her magic masks her actual goblin appearance and forked tongue. Then comes the seduction, presumably a mix of magic, beauty, black leather clothes... and good old fashioned "sleazy, teasy" body language. With these, she makes them too "crazy" to resist and they assist in their own demise.
She applies her poison lipstick and kisses the young men, thus killing them. At some point, perhaps as the first symptom of the poison, their nails curl; by then it is too late.
Interestingly ,she does this in the morning; or maybe at night, and then only eats them for "breakfast" the next day. Her acid saliva aids her digestion.
It is unknown why others of her ilk do not do likewise. How a goblin came to learn voodoo to such a skill level, and how she developed a taste for young male humans (which perhaps came first, driving her to learn magic to help in her hunting), is a tale that might just be gruesome enough for people to want to hear around a campfire.
At first, women are convinced their men simply cheated and disappeared on them. But somehow they learn of the Wild Witch Lady's powers and that their men were victims. They must persuade others that she is real, that she is to blame... and that she must be stopped. But given her powers, how?


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