In this animated short, the witch invites a new guest in her rebuilt hut. But Merida later discovered that she simply had to love her mother for all her faults. The riddle details, "Mend the bond torn by pride." Merida presumed it meant repairing the tapestry depicting her family and blanket it over her mother to break the spell. The witch also leaves Merida a riddle, which contains the way to revert the spell. When Merida comes back to the witch's hut, hoping to find a remedy to the spell, she finds, instead of the witch gone for the season, a potion-powered automated message through which the witch reveals the spell will become permanent by the second sunrise. While brewing the spell, the witch remarked that long ago, a prince desired a similar spell to change his fate and grant him the strength of ten men. In exchange of buying her entire wood carving stock with her necklace, Merida convinces the witch to give her a spell in the form of a cake, to change her mother and thus change her fate. But Merida rapidly realizes her real nature, after seeing a broom moving by itself, a speaking crow, and other abnormal wonders. the Will O’ the Wisps lead Merida to the hut of the witch who insists in presenting herself as a simple wood carver. The witch lives the life of a wood carver, and uses her knowledge in magic to help her in her work. The Witch begrudgingly gives in, conjuring a haphazard spell with an obscure riddle, which hold Merida’s fate in the balance." When Merida sees through the guise and reveals her as the Witch she truly is, Merida begs for a magical solution to her problems.
But the mysterious recluse is more than meets the eye. This seemingly harmless, eccentric and long-in-the-tooth crone specializes in the whittling of wooden bear trinkets, figurines and curios.
"Deep in the overgrown Highland forest, a ramshackle blackhouse cottage is home to the Crafty Carver.
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