DCML Digest Issue 77

[Don Rosa]

> From: Rich Bellacera <xephyr at cwnet.com>
> Subject: Magica the Sorceress
> To those who submitted info related to Magica as a Sorceress,
> thanks.  I shall
> have to remember that for her profile, though I must say, Gary is
> probably correct
> in the way most people will commonly perceive Magica whether or not it is
> technically accurate.

Oh, yes, I certainly agree with that! If one is making a list of Disney
"witches", Magica should not only be on the list, she should be at the HEAD
of the list (naturally I'd think that!). But then the explanation would need
to be included as to how she is different from someone like a Witch Hazel or
Madam Mim or the Snow White witch.

> From: "Daniel van Eijmeren" <dve at kabelfoon.nl>
> Subject: Re: Ghosts in Barks Stories
> There's another one, the will-o-the-wisp (WDC 159) story.
> If Barks has written a weird story like this, in his so-called "classic
> years" (1950s), then I'm not so sure if he definitely would have objected
> to ghosts appearing in his stories.

His will-o-the-wisp is quite carefully described by the scientist as an
elusive, strange, *living* creature who needs food to survive, like a
Peeweegah, like a Terry, like a Larky, like an Awfultonian... clearly NOT a
supernatural being. In fact, this very story seems to be *debunking* the
very idea that will-o-the-wisps are the supernatural beings that folklore
holds them to be.