After meeting with witches from Lyra's world, they journey on.

I thought it would be so, for I know how to deal with such witches.

So why not do the same with English witches?

The trouble with witches is that they'll never run away from things they really hate.

"That mother of yours obviously had you spending too much time with witches."

That's what they used to do with witches, you know.

She had eaten the children with other witches and used their hair for sorcery.

This led to the belief that it has always been associated with witches and evil.

The church would reward people who killed cats because they were associated with witches.

But there were established ways of coping with witches that rarely involved violence.