Esmeralda Esme "Granny" Weatherwax

Esme Weatherwax, is a witch, who lives in a small cottage outside the village of Bad Ass, in the kingdom of Lancre, on the Sto Plains face of the Ramtops. She is considered (not least of all by herself) to be the best witch on the Discworld and is refered to by the Pictsies as the 'Hag O' Hags'. She is the resident witch of Bad Ass, but she tends to regard the whole kingdom, and indeed absolutely anywhere else she happens to be, as her rightful domain. Her cottage is probably the most traditional of all the witches' cottages in Lancre, complete with archaic thatch, goats, and huge thickets of 'herbs' which move even when there's no breeze. She has a special fondness for bees and keeps several hives in her garden. She prefers to use "headology" instead of magic as the wizards practise it, believing that magic is not so much flashy lights as knowing things that other people don't know.