Luke devises a plan to defeat the witches by sneaking into Eva's room to steal a bottle of the potion, then sneaking into the kitchen and put it into the soup for the special RSPCC party.

He finds Bruno and reunites with Helga, who has since recovered. The witches seize Luke in the room and take him back to the ballroom, where he is forced to drink the potion and turned into a mouse before escaping. Luke is discovered and runs to Helga in their room but finds her resting after having a diabetes-induced dizzy spell. Bruno, who was given the potion earlier, is brought into the room, turns into a mouse and flees. Eva unveils her latest creation: a magic potion to turn all the world's children into mice, which will be used in confectionery products in sweet shops and candy stores to be purchased using money provided by Eva. Luke hides inside the ballroom and spies on the witches' meeting. The Grand High Witch, the all-powerful leader of the world's witches, is attending under the name Eva Ernst. Also at the hotel is a convention of witches, masquerading as the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Stringer, after his pet mice frighten his maid girlfriend. Luke unintentionally antagonizes the hotel manager, Mr. At their seaside hotel in Bournemouth, Luke meets and befriends a gluttonous but friendly boy, Bruno Jenkins. Her doctor advises they spend the summer by the sea. On Luke's ninth birthday, Helga falls ill with diabetes. While playing outside in a treehouse, Luke is approached by a witch trying to lure him with a snake and a chocolate bar, so he stays in his treehouse for protection and the witch goes away. Helga says her childhood friend, Erica, fell victim to a witch and was cursed to spend the rest of her life trapped inside a painting, aging gradually until finally disappearing a few years earlier.ДЄfter Luke's parents are killed in a car accident, Helga becomes Luke's legal guardian and they move to England. To a witch, clean children stink of dog's droppings the dirtier the child, the less likely she is to smell them. Helga tells Luke that unlike ordinary women, real witches have claws instead of fingernails which they hide by wearing gloves, bald heads which they cover by wearing wigs that give them rashes, square feet with no toes which they hide by wearing sensible shoes, a purple tinge in their pupils and a powerful sense of smell which they use to sniff out children.

During a vacation with his grandmother Helga in Norway, eight-year-old American boy, Luke Eveshim, is warned about witches, female demons who immensely hate children and use various methods to destroy or transform them.

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