Welcome to Mim's Cottage

Welcome to Mim's cottage, where it's probably safer to wear your shoes at all times. There's a lot of clutter here, mainly because Mim is just too busy plotting and executing evil doings. "Who's Mim?" you say? Well, if you've ever seen Disney's animated feature, you probably didn't say that. (Just to jog your memory, she's a nasty little witch who tries to eat King Arthur, the boy, after Merlin has turned him into a bird. She also cheats fantastically in a Wizard's duel with Merlin. She would have won, too, if he weren't so cute with his long, scraggly, white beard! Shame on him for distracting her like that.)

Aside from being cluttered, Mim's cottage is a rustic dream home filled with magical curiosities. And a great big cauldron full of ick. Gotta love a cauldron full of ick. Not only is it a fabulous facial treatment, but you can do such amazing things with it. She once made a potion that turned an entire army of Roman soldiers into butterflies. Then she turned herself into a gigantic spider, spun the largest web anyone has ever seen, captured all the soldier/butterflies, and ate every last one. It's just lucky for her that the potion lasted long enough for her to digest the butterflies before they turned back into soldiers...

Mim's cottage also has some colorful, as well as colorless, characters hanging (0r floating) around. There's Newt, who has unusually large eyes that don't point in the same direction. He is most commonly known for shooting two arrows through two targets at the same time - one was directly behind him and the other was ahead and to the right.

Kleb also spends a great deal of time at Mim's cottage. No one is particularly sure what Kleb is, or why he is so popular, but many people know him and put up with his odd behaviours no matter how outrageous he gets.

Bob is a name Mim gave to the resident spook because he died without ever learning to write his real name, and everyone knows the only words that ever come out of a ghost's mouth are "Boo!" and various throat-wrenching screams mostly pronounced "Ah." He usually serves as butler. Well, really, he just announces visitors by screaching loudly.

Cassiopea is a lovely-looking kitten of purest black with the sweetest blue eyes anyone could imagine - and the longest, sharpest claws, and most vicious teeth on earth. Cass (often called Momma Cass) takes great pleasure in sneaking up on unwary travelers who have strayed too close to Mim's cottage - rather hard to do on accident as the cottage is atop a treacherous crag that somehow supports a very thick forest with dangerous bogs and unknown terrors. When a stranger approaches, Cass stalks them stealthily, more like a passing mist than a feline of any sort; she waits for them to be hopelessly stuck in a bog, or some other unknown terror, and pounces. Sometimes with teeth and claws, but quite often with her fluffy tail which tickles in the most distracting way...then she hits them with the teeth and claws. Ok, so the teeth and claws always come out: what else do you expect from an evil witch's cat? She once held a polar bear hostage for days in a forget-me-hole. It only ceased when she got distracted by a soldier/butterfly passing by on a breeze. She almost got eaten along with him, but her reflexes were too much for Mim, even as a spider.

Come by the cottage as often as you dare. There may or may not be new and interesting things to eat, touch, or just say "ick" about. But there will always be the first rule: Wear your shoes if you don't want your toes to be included in one of Mim's potions.