Badjelly the Witch

Badjelly the Witch

infobox Book
name = "Badjelly the Witch"
author = Spike Milligan
illustrator = Spike Milligan
country = England
language = English
genre = Children's literature
publisher = Hobbs
release_date = 1973
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
isbn = 071811125 (hardback), 0140378464 (Penguin paperback)

Badjelly the Witch is a brief handwritten, illustrated story by Spike Milligan, created for his children, then printed in 1973. It was made into an audio and a video version.

In the story, two children, looking for their lost cow, meet magical enchanted forest characters. They are captured by Badjelly the witch, then rescued by an eagle. God intervenes as they escape, and destroys the witch. The characters enchanted by Badjelly are rescued.

In 1975, in the planning for an audio version for the BBC "infant's programme" "Let's Join In", Milligan objected to the planned removal of God from the story. The BBC wrote in a letter that the object is not to put God on the same level as goblins, to which Milligan replied that goblins, fairies and God all exist. However, he allowed God to be removed. [Norma Farnes, "The Compulsive Spike Milligan, Fourth Estate 2004]

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