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The ''Witches and the Grinnygog'' was a British television serial first aired in 1983. The story was adapted from the book ''The Witches and the Grinnygog'' and was aired as a six-episode television miniseries produced by Television South and subsequently re-broadcast in the US, Canada, New Zealand, and Israel. ==Summary== A strange statue (the Grinnygog), which fell off the back of a truck carrying stones of an old church for relocation, is discovered by a woman on her way home from the store. The woman takes the statue home and gives it to her elderly father as a garden ornament. The family who now has possession of the Grinnygog, in particular one small boy, begin to experience strange feelings of euphoria and a desire to participate in folk magic rituals. At the same time, a nervous, "other-worldly" child begins to be seen around the town and appears lost and frightened. Meanwhile, three eccentric older women arrive in the town and appear to be searching for something. They bring with them one of the women's "daughter", who is later revealed to be a mannequin, but one point appears to be walking by itself. The story eventually reveals that the three women are in fact witches from England's Middle Ages who escaped a witch-hunt by somehow slipping through time into the modern age. The Grinnygog, which was a type of familiar spirit, had lay dormant until being removed from the church, and thereafter summoned the witches to the present day. One of the witches is now looking for her daughter who was separated during a witch burning held hundreds of years ago in the town. The daughter escaped by slipping through time, but only intermittently, and is now lost without her mother. The presence of the witches, and their relationship to the Grinnygog, is eventually figured out by a group of town children who look into their town's collective past and discover that the town must make amends for the ancient injustice of witch burning. One clue is revealed to be an old manuscript by a town elder who apparently witnessed the witch burning and wrote out the event in a journal; he later died (in the middle of writing his journal) before revealing the final clue about the escaped witches. Another clue is the arrival of an African witch doctor, named Mr. Alabaster (played by Olu Jacobs) who is seeking the witches out to help them. The story ends with the witches reunited with the daughter and taken away by Mr. Alabaster to someplace where they will be safe, along with the Grinnygog. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Witches and the Grinnygog (1983 series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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