Les Naines de Micha

Esmée, the most talented of the witches, owns a magical broom that can make her fly, and whose handle ends with a datura, the flower of the witch. It is a toxic plant, hallucinogen, used in chamanic practices, and in the past, for treating madness or to plunge people into a deep sleep.
She has a solid mind, rigid, surly, grumpy, and jealous, that makes her unbearable, but she doesn't hesitate to put herself in danger to save others.
During the Inquisition, witches were victims of popular belief, the church forbade the supernatural, and the courts condemned them to be tortured and burned alive, because they put in peril the social order. A terrible way to know if a woman was a witch consists in throwing her into water, feet and fists bound, to prevent her from floating. A witch is in theory lighter than water, so if she floated, she was immediately fished out and burned alive. If she drowned, than she died innocent.
She is a scapegoat in a period where women were frightening: their bodies disturbing, their mysteries feared. These women practiced magic, knew the secret of plants, of recovery, caste spells.