The Disc Witches Guild

What is magic?

...there is the witches' explanation, which comes in two forms, depending on the age of the witch. Older witches hardly put words to it at all, but may suspect in their hearts that the universe really doesn't know what the hell is going on and consists of a zillion trillion billion possibilities, and could become any one of them if a trained mind rigid with quantum certainty was inserted in the crack and twisted; that, if you really had to make someone's hat explode, all you needed to do was twist into that universe where a large number of hat molecules all decide at the same time to bounce off in different directions.

Younger witches, on the other hand, talk about it all the time and believe it involves crystals, mystic forces, and dancing about without yer drawers on.

Everyone may be right all at the same time. That's the thing about quantum.

- Lords & Ladies by Terry Pratchett

Welcome to the unofficial concise compendium, of the The Discworld Witches Guild. In these pages I hope to offer informative material that eases ones way through the witches guild and helps the older ladies when their memory starts to go.

Before perusing these pages I would like to offer up some advice: Do not take everything stated here as absolute, complete, and utter truth. I have done my best through the years to gather the most up to date and factual information that I can obtain at the current time. However, information on the Discworld is known to change at random.

These pages are consistenly updated on a sporadic bases. For more specific update information you may want to try the updates page. Any ideas, thoughts, or comments are appreciated, please feel free to mail them to me at rhonda@deb.at.

P.S.: Yes, this page isn't maintained by Clover Withycombe anymore. I have to thank her wholeheartly for providing this terrific collection of informations. I hope that I will at least in parts be able to catch up with her work. Thank you, Clover!!