Characters
- Tiffany Aching- A young apprentice witch who sets out to an elderly witches house for training. She encounters the hiver and learns to deal with it.
- Miss Tick- Tiffany’s former teacher who is an undercover witch.
- Miss Level- Tiffany’s current teacher who has two bodies and a cottage in the mountains. She helps the townspeople free of charge with anything they need.
- Granny Weatherwax- The most powerful witch who is looked up to by all the other witches. She accompanies Tiffany on her hunt for the hiver.
- The Hiver- A dangerous creature that can sense everything around it. It seeks shelter in humans minds and it goes for Tiffany in the novel.
- Granny Aching- Tiffany’s dead grandmother who was the witch on the chalk.
- Tiffany’s Mom and Dad- They tell people of Tiffany’s prowess with cheese and believe it leads to Miss Level hearing about her.In truth, Miss Level, a witch finder, encountered Tiffany two years earlier, while posing as a traveling teacher. At that time she promised to bring Tiffany to a witch who would take her on as apprentice, when Tiffany was a little older.This occurred in the previous book "The Wee Free Men".
- Roland- The baron's son in the chalk. He gives Tiffany a silver horse necklace.
- Rob Anybody- One of the Nac Mac Feegle who goes on a quest to help Tiffany fight the hiver.
- Mr Crabber- Horse carriage driver.
- Jeannie- Rob’s wife who is the kelda (queen) of the Nac Mac Feegle
- Daft Wullie- A Nac Mac Feegle who goes with Rob to help Tiffany.
- Tommy the Toad- the advisor and educated toad for the Nac Mac Feegle.
- Big Yan- A Nac Mac Feegle who goes with Rob to help Tiffany.
- Oswald- a poltergeist spirit who cleans Miss Levels cottage
- Awf’ly Wee Billy Bigchin- A Nac Mac Feegle who goes with Rob to help Tiffany.
- Mr Weavall- An elderly towns person who relies upon Miss Level to help him.
- Petulia- An apprentice witch who befriends Tiffany and takes her to the meeting in the woods.
- Annagramma- The leader of the group of apprentice witches who is considered bossy by the girls.
- Zakzak- a dwarf who owns a shop for witches
- Mrs Earwig- the witch who trains Annagramma. She believes that the witches shouldn’t waste their time helping others.
- Brian- Zakzak’s security guard who gets turned into a balloon by Tiffany
- Death- The caretaker of the underworld who confronts Tiffany
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