"It is believed that any aged, old woman with red eyes is a witch, " Mr Missika said.

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Yet economists, like rival witch doctors, get red in the face promoting diametrically opposed economic remedies, sometimes sharing Nobel Prizes in the same year for theories that directly contradict each other.

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In Grimm's Fairy Tales, what does the wolf do to Red Riding Hood's granny or the witch plan to do to Hansel?

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In many places traditional religious and healing practices are still widespread, with red-and-white flags marking the homes of witch doctors.

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The narrator becomes a young boy (alternately played by Noah Radcliffe and Jack Broderick) who wanders into a nearby forest to escape a family argument and gets swept up in the fast-unfolding plot, in which Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Jack (the one who brought down the beanstalk) run collectively afoul of a witch, a wolf and a giant.

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