The Witches

Title: The Witches

Author: Ronald Dahl

I am reading  the book that is called The Witches. It has 22 chapters and the first of them is the introduction. The name of this chapter is called "A Note about Witches".

So far, the author explains that this book is not a fairy-tale. The book is going to tell us about real witches. They dress ordinary. This means that they don't wear silly black hats and black cloaks. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ordinary jobs. This means that they don't ride on broomsticks. 

Ronald Dahl explains that a real witch hates children and they actually think about how to do away all children one by one. It's all they think about the whole day long. Witches reckons on doing away with one child per week. Anything less than that and they become grumpy.

The motto of all witches is: "Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear".

Later, I red about how all witches catch the children. First they moves quietly and they get closer and closer. And when they decided that everything is ready ...... puff ...... and they swoops!! Unhappily, after some brief spells the child disappears. However, the witches doesn't knock the children or stick knives into them and etc.. They have magic in their fingers. As far as the children are concerned, the witches become the most dangerous thing in the world. 

The worst thing is that you can't understand is your teacher a witch or not. The witch might live next door to you right now. 

Ronald Dahl says that the only way to recognize a witch is to look out for little strange habits that all witches have in common.

Unknown words:

There is one phrase that I don't understand.

"Her mind will always be plotting and scheming and churning and burning and whizzing and phizzing with murderous bloodthirsty thoughts".

I made a research, I tried Google Translate and some other dictionaries but they didn't give me anything. If you guys know what does this phrase means please tell me. Thank you! :)