The Witch (Brave)

The Witch is a minor character in the 2012 Disney/Pixar film Brave. She is voiced by Julie Walters.

Brave
The Witch lives the life of a wood carver, and uses her knowledge in magic to help her in her work. The Will O' the Wisps lead Princess Merida to her hut, and the woman insists in presenting herself as a simple wood carver. But Merida rapidly realizes her real nature, after seeing a broom moving by itself, a speaking crow, and other abnormal wonders. The witch tells her that she's not a witch due to too many unsatisfied customers and tries get rid of Merida with floating knives until Merida offers to buy all of her carvings. In exchange of buying her entire stock, Merida convinces the witch to give her a spell in the form of a cake, to change her mother. Just as Merida leaves with the cake, the witch realizes she forgot something very critical about the spell but is too late to tell Merida.

When Merida comes back to the witch's hut, hoping to find a remedy to the spell, she finds, instead of the witch gone for the Wicker Man Festival in Stornoway, a potion-powered automated message through which the witch reveals the spell will become permanent by the second sunrise. The witch also leaves Merida a riddle: "Fate be changed, look inside, mend the bond torn by pride," which contains the way to revert the spell. The message repeats the phrase once more before disappearing. Merida begins to panic, as she doesn't understand the message, and tries to get the witch to appear again by pouring other vials of potions into the automated message, which causes it to become jumbled until the message explodes, completely destroying the witches cottage. She isn't seen again afterwards.

The Legend of Mor'du
The Witch tells the legend of the eldest prince of the forgotten kingdom who sought her out to give a spell that will give him the strength of ten men and that would change his fate in exchange for his ring. So she does so and he became Mor'du and the kingdom crumbled into darkness and endlessly wandered. It was revealed the Witch was telling the story to Wee Dingwall who came to the witch. She offered him a spell to challenge his fate but he frightenly claimed that he just wanted a drink of water and tries to run out the door. The Witch kindly tells him to pull the door and then Wee Dingwall runs away screaming after thanking her politely. She says goodbye and closes the door to return to woodcarving.

Once Upon a Time
The witch don't appear on the show. However, she was mentioned when Merida and Belle enter in her cottage to use magic for to save Merida's brothers.

Trivia

 * In the original script of Brave, the witch was not present.
 * All of her carvings are bear themed, so it is possible that her magic is also bear themed, since both Mor'du and Elinor both became bears from it.
 * The Witch's real name is never given.
 * She is a woodcarver by profession, although she doesn't appear to be very good at keeping her secret, she very nearly gave it away to Merida thrice (the broom, the crow, and her near slip-of-the-tongue) before Merida realized it for herself.
 * There is an easter egg inside her cottage which is a picture of Sulley.
 * The Witch forgetting to disenchant her broom is the same mistake Merriweather made in Sleeping Beauty but the latter prevented hers from being seen by the princess of the movie.