| Cousin Maggie | |
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Real Name |
Maggie |
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First Appearance |
Modern Madcap Poor little Witch Girl (1965) |
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Original Publisher |
Paramount Pictures |
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Created by |
Howard Post |
Origin[]
Cousin Maggie is an old witch who is the cousin of a little witch girl named Halfwitch.
The character appears in the animated short Poor Little Witch Girl. The short, directed by Howard Post, was released in April 1965 as part of Paramount Pictures' Modern Madcap series. The action of Poor Little Witch Girl appears to take place in a fantasy world at some indeterminate point in the past. In the short, Halfwitch lives in a small cottage in the forest that she shares with her Cousin Maggie (a much older witch) and a bat named Fraidy Bat (whose accent suggests that he comes from Transylvania). Halfwitch is unhappy because her Cousin Maggie will not take her along on a flight on her magic broomstick. Cousin Maggie says that Halfwitch cannot fly on the broomstick until she grows up. Halfwitch knows that will not be for a long time because it takes five hundred years for witch children to grow up. While Cousin Maggie is out, Fraidy Bat tells Halfwitch to use Cousin Maggie's book of magic spells to make herself bigger. Halfwitch grows to a gigantic size. At the end of the cartoon, Cousin Maggie returns Halfwitch to her normal size and allows her to fly on the broomstick.
Public Domain Appearances[]
- Poor Little Witch Girl (1965)