In the original, she does try magic and potions to preserve the beauty that she thinks she has. In the original, she didn't even notice they had tried. In the revised version, she punishes the children for succeeding where she failed. In both versions, Morgause tries and fails to catch a unicorn, then her children catch and kill one. Example, the revised version starts with Morgause boiling a living cat in order to make a magic potion. The revised version is darker in tone, while keeping only some of the humor. Even "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" is less silly than "The Witch in the Wood". The original is twice as long, and is very, very silly. Wikipedia says "most of the text is different." Not "some", but "most". Many of the reviews here don't seem to realize that they are very, very different books. Later it was almost completely re-written as the Queen of Air and Darkness to be part 2 of "The Once and Future King". The Witch in the Wood is the original version of this book.
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