However, when she names the price, Merida argues that it will drive the clans broke three times over, so the Witch requests she simply return the helm instead, and gives her until the following sunset to do so, lest the Witch turn the entire kingdom's citizens into bears. The Witch begrudgingly gives in, conjuring a haphazard spell with an obscure riddle, which hold Merida’s fate in the balance.Two years later, after King Fergus is killed in the battle she provided him with the helm for, the Witch arrives at the coronation for Queen Merida, insisting that the clans pay her the price Fergus owed her. When Merida sees through the guise and reveals her as the Witch she truly is, Merida begs for a magical solution to her problems. But the mysterious recluse is more than meets the eye. This seemingly harmless, eccentric and long-in-the-tooth crone specializes in the whittling of wooden bear trinkets, figurines and curios. Now let’s talk about that Witch (voiced by Julie Walters)!ĭeep in the overgrown Highland forest, a ramshackle blackhouse cottage is home to the Crafty Carver. There’s a duality to them, because they’re either good or evil-they lead Merida into more and more trouble, but in the end, they’ve led her exactly where she needs to go.” They’re almost like Marley’s ghost in a way, because Marley’s ghost isn’t an evil spirit-even though he’s frightening, he’s trying to warn Ebenezer to change his ways. We made the wisps like actual little spirits. People would follow these lights thinking they were little fairies, and basically drown or get sucked down into the bogs. They were said to lead you to treasure or doom-to change your fate-but they’re an actual phenomenon of swamp and bog gas seeping up through the earth and interacting with the natural resources to create the blue flames. “The will o’ the wisps are in a lot of Scottish folktales. Here is director Mark Andrews explanation about these creatures: Yet no matter how long or how fervently they follow, they never quite touch the beautiful beacons whose flickering lights eventually fade and disappear… leaving the inquisitors, the dreamers and the treasure seekers lost… and alone. It is said-though by whom is a bit of a mystery-that on certain days for certain travelers in certain parts of the world, little lights dance on the horizon, whispering tempting invitations… pledging the answers to lifelong questions, the realization of dreams, a key to secret treasures-a change of fate.Ĭharmed and curious, unsuspecting travelers follow the floating lights, mesmerized by their whispers, their promises. Travelers-particularly those who venture out after sunset on unfamiliar pathways-beware of the will o’ the wisps. Let’s take a closer look at the fantastical Wisps and The Witch from the highly anticipated film Brave!
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