Informative Essay: Sophia The Witch

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There was once a little girl named Sophia who was very stubborn and who never obeyed when her elders spoke to her. Her elders told her not to go trick or treating since there was a witch haunting the neighborhood. Knowing about the old witch, sophia demands to see her while trick or treating. People say she is a wonderful old woman, and has many marvellous things in her house, and that Sophia is very curious to see the witch.” On Halloween night Sophia went trick or treating without a chaperone. She knocked on a door greeted by a grotesque witch. The witch’s eyes were blazing with hatred and flaming with anger. Sophia was terribly frightened. The witch said she was getting a treat for her instead she picked up a dead rat

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