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English: WITCH. HUBBARD, MOTHER, Mother Bunch, Mother Shipton, Nance Redfern, Dame Trot, Enchantress, Witch, and Fairy Godmother are all dressed much alike. Mother Hubbard in a quilted petticoat touching the ground ; a chintz tunic open in front, bunched up ; muslin apron ; low velvet bodice with deep point, laced across the front ; sleeves to elbow with ruffles ; muslin kerchief, close ruff ; spectacles, mittens, and stick ; a lace cap, and a high-pointed velvet sugar-loaf hat with peacock's feather over it ; high-heeled shoes with rosettes ; a small white dog ; the hair powdered or not. Or blue satin petticoat, cerise moiré skirt, and laced body, looped up. Coat, shoes, loaf of bread bottles of white wine and red, and bone &c. ; highlow shoes, hair poudré, with small steeple-crowned hat, lace apron and kerchief, white Pomeranian dog, crook, &c. ; ornaments, diamonds. Mother Bunch is always poudré ; the same in other respects. Dame Trot wears pointed hat not so high. Nance Redfern, Mother Shipton, and the Old Woman who Swept the Sky, being witches, carry a broom, and on the skirt are toads, cats, serpents, curlews, frogs, bats, and lizards in black velvet ; a serpent twisted round the crown of hat, and owl in front, a black cat on shoulder. Sometimes a scarlet cloak is attached to the shoulders, and the velvet bodice is high with pendant sleeves.