Top 10 Witches

The Internet was set afire when footage from a 1999 episode of Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect revealed that Christine O'Donnell, Republican candidate for a Delaware Senate seat, admitted to having dabbled in witchcraft as a teenager. TIME looks at the 10 best witches, both real and fictional

The Wicked Witch of the West

Wicked Witch of the West

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The Wicked Witch of the West was the baddest witch around. In 1939's The Wizard of Oz, she was played by Margaret Hamilton as a green-skinned, wart-covered evil woman dressed entirely in black from the shoes on her feet to the pointy hat atop her head. That look — along with a rickety old broom to fly on — still remains the one children mimic on Halloween, a testament to an utterly iconic character.

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