ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about myth, which is a gash in time and each period of the myth focuses on one of its shifting aspects. If the witch and she many representations now appear as an archetype of people's culture present in literature, painting and opera, it is because she was originally alive. They can recognize here, following, that the essential function of the character of the witch is to establish the myth. It took the Catholic Church several centuries to silence and then to eliminate reappearances of the ancient pagan rites still present in the villages of Europe. Insofar as they are demons, witches originated in and are related to the instability of places and powers; in the same way they are able to acquire instability of form. Witches have been seen turning into trout, foxes, donkeys, weasels, snakes, owls, wolves, mermaids or flea-ridden nanny-goats.
