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His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. She briefly took on Tiffany Aching as an apprentice after the death of her previous mentor, Miss Treason. No amount of charms could persuade a wart to take root on her handsome if slightly equine features, and vast intakes of sugar only served to give her boundless energy. However, the only people who appear truly to suffer are her daughters-in-law, of whom she has dozens and rules over with a tyrannical authority. Nanny Ogg has impressive social skills, and often relies upon these rather than witchcraft to gather information or persuade others.
Nanny Ogg gave this the same consideration as would a nuclear physicist who'd just been told that someone was banging two bits of sub-critical uranium together to keep warm.More importantly, she has been selected by those who should know as the greatest midwife in history, and her command of practical magic is probably second only to Esmerelda Weatherwax's.
One of her favorite songs is The Hedgehog Can Never be Buggered at All, whose lyrics probably shouldn't be proclaimed so loudly in public places. Nanny Ogg – most ramtop witches of any note have some suitably grand motherly honorific (Granny, Nanny, Gammer, etc) regardless of actual marital status, but Nanny Ogg is definitely a grand mother. Gytha "Nanny" Ogg is a witch from the Ramtop Mountains, Granny Weatherwax's oldest and perhaps only friend, sometime conscience and reality-check. As with the Discworld Wiki, the text of Wikipedia:Wikipedia is available under the Wikipedia:GNU Free Documentation License. To date there are a total of 36 books in the Discworld series, of which four (so far) are written for children.
It could perhaps be likened to the Kama Sutra in terms of content, through perhaps being of Nanny's authorship, a trifle more vulgar and also perhaps even more explicit, and not unnaturally perhaps most of all very descriptive. The first reference to Nanny Ogg's Cookbook appeared in 'Witches Abroad', where the cookbook makes its way to Ankh-Morpork and is subsequently published. In The Art of Discworld, [1] Pratchett mentions a fossil species of Mesozoic ginkgo known as Ginkgoites nannyoggiae. She has also been credited with a grin "that should have been locked up for the sake of public decency" and her face has been described as looking like "a friendly pumpkin. Nanny’s philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible.
they say travelin broadens the mind, I reckon I could pull mine out my ears now and knot it under my chin . by the great and good of the Discworld, full of Nanny Ogg's unique wisdom and way with words, and peppered with apoplectic notes from the editor and the publisher, this is a treasure trove of literary, culinary and comic delights. And you never get people from a long way off coming to our part of the world lookin’ for, as it might be, the Cottage of Doom or the Lost Chicken Shed.She shares this home with Greebo, a tomcat of evil aura and aroma and astonishing viciousness, whom she still sees as a sweet kitten. In The Art of Discworld, it was also revealed that in her youth, she had dated Leonard da Quirm, resulting in his painting Mona Ogg.