Witch Hazel

Witch Hazel
Background information
Feature films	Who Framed Roger Rabbit (cameo) Mickey's House of Villains The Nightmare Before Christmas (mentioned)
Short films	Trick or Treat
Shows	The Mouse Factory House of Mouse
Voice	June Foray
Character information
Occupation	Witch
Likes	Halloween, Flying, Huey, Dewey, Louie
Dislikes	People who don't give candy on Halloween, Donald
Powers and abilities	Black Magic

Witch Hazel is a fictional character appearing in productions of The Walt Disney Company. She first appeared in the 1952 Donald Duck cartoon Trick or Treat, where she helps Huey, Dewey and Louie get candy from Donald.

Personality

Witch Hazel is a kind, eccentric, and cunning witch. She is mischievous and compassionate as she wants to help Huey, Dewey and Louie when they received a rather mean trick instead of candy from Donald and sought to help the boys, especially when she first tried asking for candy and got the same trick played on her.

Hazel is willing to use any spell she has to teach someone as stingy as Donald a lesson and will even hurt them somewhat to make sure she gets her point across. She loves Halloween and its traditions, having true Halloween Spirit, if not embodying it.

Powers

Hazel is a witch and has power over witchcraft and black magic, mostly enchanting things to come alive, move in accordance of her will or even have a life of their own.

Hazel accomplishes this with a witch's brew she makes in a cauldron of swamp water, the ingredients including (but not limited to) "eye of needle, tongue of shoe, hand of clock that points at two, neck of bottle, tail of coat and whiskers from a billy goat."

Hazel uses a sprayer that contains her potion to enchant and animate what she wants, sometimes accompanying the spraying with a spell to describe exactly what actions she wants her enchanted subjects to perform. Example: "Hocus pocus, magic shower, put his feet within my power." (Hazel used this spell to take control of Donald's legs and feet.)

Appearances

Trick or Treat

Witch Hazel first appears riding her living broomstick, Beelzebub, as she gets into the spirit of Halloween, scaring bats and a black cat. She then sees Huey, Dewey and Louie, each dressed up for Halloween as they go out Trick-or-treating. When the triplets are given a mean trick rather than a treat from their Uncle Donald, she takes pity on them and tells the boys that she saw the entire thing. When the boys express their joy at seeing a real witch, she is happy and decides to help them.

Hazel initially tries to ask for candy from Donald herself, but thinking that she was just another kid dressed in a costume, he gives her a trick as well, enraging her. With the kids' help, she brews a magic potion that has the power to animate whatever she wants to move and act according to her will. She starts off with a demonstration by animating wooden posts into ghosts and a jack-o-lantern to scare Donald. Stubbornly, Donald locks up his treats in his pantry and swallows the key. Undeterred, Hazel uses her potion and a spell to enchant Donald's feet and make him dance and hurt himself at the same time until finally forcing him to ram the pantry door down, enabling Donald's nephews to get his treats.

Duty done and with Halloween almost over, Hazel fondly bids Huey, Dewey and Louie farewell as she rides Beelzebub off into the moonlight.

The Mad Hermit of Chimney Butte

Witch Hazel appears as the one who casts a spell on the pulp fiction books of Donald to play a trick on him. This sequence serves as an introduction, as well as an explanation, for the events of the preexisting cartoon Duck Pimples.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Witch Hazel makes a brief cameo appearance during the final scene of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, seen from the back amongst the crowd of Toons.

House of Mouse

She appears in the background among the various villains in the special Mickey's House of Villains. Her debuted short cartoon was also featured at the start of the film. 

The Nightmare Before Christmas

At the beginning of the movie, right after Jack's song, Sally takes an herb that is called "Witch Hazel" 

Gallery

Witch Hazel in DTV Monster Hits

Witch Hazel in the Beagle Boys comic book

Trivia

• During the mid-1950s, Chuck Jones created a similar-named witch character for Looney Tunes at Warner Bros, first debuted in the Bugs Bunny cartoon Bewitched Bunny. Unlike Disney's version of the Witch Hazel character which is a good witch, the Looney Tunes' version of Witch Hazel is a more villainous witch. Like the Disney counterpart the Looney Tunes' was also voiced by June Foray (although in her debut cartoon Bea Benaderet voiced the character due to June Foray's unavailability at the time).

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