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The 32nd ''[[
Time has rolled on and Tiffany Aching has grown older and cleverer, but perhaps not more sensible. As far as her parents are concerned, she is off to earn a little money and see a bit of the world as an assistant to a far more experienced lady, Miss Level. And that is one-hundred percent correct. She is also going to learn witchcraft.
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* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Annagramma. As stereotypical as any character gets in the Discworld.
* [[And I Must Scream]]: Tiffany is still aware, and is trapped in her own mind while the Hiver is possessing her. She manages to retain some control over herself, but was weakening before the Feegles came to her aide.
* [[Battle in
* [[Character Filibuster]]: Granny Weatherwax's rant about how "the soul and center" of witchcraft is "helpin' people when life is on the edge".
* [[Close Knit Community]]: The Chalk. Tiffany mentions they always look after each other because her grandmother expected it.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Some of the things Granny Weatherwax did in previous books are mentioned as rumours about her. In addition, the book--especially the {{spoiler|Witch Trial sequence}}--is as much a sequel to the short story "The Sea and Little Fishes" as to ''[[Discworld
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The hiver has been around practically since the universe began. It was aware of everything at once in its natural form. The universe was a ''much'' smaller place back then, but the hiver ''still sees and hears everything.'' This is, suffice to say, traumatic, and so it [[Grand Theft Me|hops into living minds.]] It gains some degree of insulation against the quantity of the universe, and in exchange it allows its victim to essentially act as pure id. It is better at being you than you are.
* [[Evil Costume Switch]]: When Tiffany is possessed by the Hiver, she's inspired to raid the local witch shop, buy a cape, a tall hat, and several pieces of occult jewelry.
* [[Fancy French Name|It Is Pronounced Tro-PAY]] : Mrs Earwig - sorry, Ahwij.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: ''When I am old, [[Discworld
* [[Geas]]: Rob Anybody is put under a Geas by his wife Jeannie to protect Tiffany Aching. It becomes a [[Running Gag]] that Daft Wullie keeps thinking Rob means an actual goose. Of course as Sourcery points out, there are actual birds named geas on Discworld.
* [[I Have to Go Iron My Dog]]: When Roland comes to see Tiffany off, Miss Tick mentions seeing a very nice example of a...big stone.
* [[Like a Weasel]]: Petulia does this out of crippling shyness.
* [[Man in
* [[Punctuated for Emphasis]]: "''That'' is the root and heart and soul and center of witchcraft, that is. The soul and center! The... soul... and... ''center''!"
* [[Shout-Out]]: Petulia performs her magical "pig trick" at the Witch Trials, but uses a sausage instead of a pig. In the fantasy film ''[[Willow]]'', {{spoiler|a stage-magic pig trick is performed using a ''baby'' instead of a pig}}.
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* [[Synchronized Swarming]]: The ending features this.
* [[Take That, Critics!]]: Annagramma's completely wrongheaded criticism of Miss Level ("A complete amateur. Hasn't really got a clue.") is a paraphrase of the critic Tom Paulin, who once said of Pterry: ''"A complete amateur ... doesn't even write in chapters ... hasn't a clue."''
* [[Talking the Monster
* [[Waxing Lyrical]]: Rob Anybody's complaint when the Feegles are pretending to be a human -- "I talk to my knees but they dinna listen to me." -- is almost but not quite the first line of a famous song from ''[[Paint Your Wagon (
* [[What Happened to
* [[The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask]]: Played straight ''and'' subverted with Jeannie.
* [[You Keep Using That Word]]: Near the end of the book, Tiffany finally gets around to chiding Annagramma for abusing the word "literally".
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