Illustration: Tomie dePaola

The best to ever do it.

With love to Strega Nona!

Muppet Fact #961

On Mrs. Bush’s Story Time, Count von Count read Strega Nona, Elmo read The Adventures of Frog and Toad, Big Bird read Arthur Meets the President, Oscar the Grouch read Gregory, the Terrible Eater, and Grover read Doctor De Soto.

Source:

Mrs. Bush’s Story Time. Muppet Wiki.

Propaganda under the cut

Majo Rika

stingy, selfish, awfully blunt and greedy to a fault---she's the perfect hag as far as i'm concerned. her attitude is not helped by the fact that she had to transform to a frog due to a curse in the witch world that dictates all witches exposed by a human are to turn into frogs, and take on said human as an apprentice until they're powerful enough to revert their master back to her original form. as recompense she makes the girls responsible for her turning work at her magic shop on her behalf and tears them a new one if they fail to make her that 👏 Bread 👏. however, with time they gain a soft spot in her heart and she starts treating them like her own daughters which is super sweet... about time we had an old lady Mentor character who slowly builds her own found family

she also has her own fairy who keeps sassing her and it's kinda fruity ngl,,, i mean their world /is/ made up entirely of women so..

Strega Nona

Old spaghetti witch owns my heart

Unlimited spaghetti!

Round 1 poll 19: Ella from Ella Enchanted vs Strega Nona

Propaganda under the cut:

Ella:

Ella is cursed to be obedient, forcing her to follow any command given to her. Despite this, she strives to find ways around the curse or cause problems for those who make commands. She’s also a budding linguistic, learning multiple languages on her journey. Furthermore, Ella's curse serves as a metaphor for the lack of autonomy children experience in society, often being made to do things beyond their control because adults in their lives dictate it so. Clearly, a strong contender in the race!

Cursed with obedience, Ella will stretch her limits and find any loophole to disobey orders, and in the end it is her indomitable spirit and deep love that enables her to break her own curse. She is also clever, funny, incredibly gifted with languages, and has a heart for justice.

an unlimited pasta pot, dubious matchmaking services, AND the ability to cure warts?

damn strega nona had it all figured out. fuck cottagecore, i wanna cultivate a pasta based witch aesthetic.

My Neverafter OC, Strega Mammina. A martial cleric of Big Anthony, she wields the pasta boiled in her enchanted cauldron as if it were a whip. "The one thing you must never do...is touch the pasta pot"

Strega Nona (based on an old fairy tale) written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola • 1975 • Prentice Hall, New Jersey, publisher

Only strega nona knows what girl dinner truly is

Totally forgot I made this. I will be taking NO criticism

me making pasta for my friends (i have been banned from american schools for promoting witchcraft)

Now I gotta eat all these Strega Nona stamps I ordered.

Tomie dePaola Strega Nona Forever Stamps release May 5th!

This stamp honors prolific children’s book author and illustrator Tomie dePaola (1934-2020), whose extraordinarily varied body of work encompasses folktales and legends, informational books, religious and holiday stories, and touching autobiographical tales. The stamp art features a detail from the cover of “Strega Nona” (1975), the Caldecott Honor winning first book in the series. Set in southern Italy, the gently humorous story focuses on Strega Nona, “Grandma Witch,” who uses magic to help with matters of the heart and to cure her neighbors’ ills. Art director Derry Noyes designed the stamp with Tomie dePaola’s original art.

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