Nightmare Fuel / The Once and Future King

• Madam Mim capturing Wart and Kay. She has them locked up and prepares to turn them into a meal. Wart helps Kay escape, telling him to run and get help, and faces the witch. Merlin comes just as Mim is about to chop Wart to pieces.
• Merlin doesn't leave Madam Mim bedridden as he did in the Disney film. He kills her with various germs and diseases. And that is that you don't mess with his apprentices.
• Particularly for a Kind Hearted Cat Lover, Morgause's invisibility spell at the beginning of the second part is sheer nightmare. She boils a black cat alive in search of a cat bone that will grant her invisibility. Making it worse is that she didn't have any pressing need to move about invisibly. Or, given her vanity, any actual wish to go about invisibly. She only performed the spell because she was bored. She doesn't even bother to keep looking for the invisibility bone after a while! White describes certain events far too well...
  In the boiling water, the cat gave some horrible convulsions and a dreadful cry. Its wet fur bobbed in the steam, gleaming like the side of a speared whale, as it tried to leap or to swim with its bound feet. Its mouth opened hideously, showing the whole of its pink gullet, and the sharp, white cat-teeth, like thorns. After the first shriek it was not able to articulate, but only to stretch its jaws. Later it was dead.
  • On top of that, the spell wasn't White's invention. It's an actual ritual from the Grand Grimoire. Not included in Morgause's doings was saying "accipe quod tibi do, et nihil ampliùs" ("accept my offering, and don't delay") as you cast the cat's flesh and "failed" bones over your left shoulder. Or, since she didn't bother to find the invisibility bone in the first place, saying "Pater, in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum" ("Father, into your hands I commend my spirit") once you do find it.

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