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The White Witch was very magically powerful in her own world, but found her magic largely useless in other worlds. In Narnia she got her magic power mostly from a wand. With her wand, she could turn anyone to stone. Her Castle, the seat of her rule over Narnia, was littered throughout with stone statues frozen in horrified poses, which on closer inspection were people and animals that had been turned to stone.

The White Witch's minions were composed of a large variety of evil magic creatures, but predominant among them were the wolves (who, like many animals in Narnia, can talk) and the black-bearded dwarves.

Physically, the White Witch's most striking feature is her white skin, from which her name was derived. It is not merely very pale, but actually white; as white as chalk, or paper, or snow. In the book The Magician's Nephew it is explained that her skin was made that way by partaking of an apple from the Emperor's Garden in the Land of Narnia at the beginning of that world. The apple was forbidden to all those except those who were explicitly instructed to fetch it, and even then those people had to bear it for others, and not partake of it themselves. The fruit gave her immortality and made her skin white. She is also exceedingly tall, which was a natural feature of her race.

The White Witch made two false claims which, if true, would have given her authority to rule over Narnia. The first was that she is a human. At the beginning of Narnia Aslan gave "sons of Adam and daughters of Eve" dominion over all the beasts (dumb or talking) and magical creatures of Narnia. No human had been in Narnia for centuries at the beginning of the book, (dwarves aren't considered human, but are referred to as "sons of earth"). Although the White Witch looks human (despite her unnatural skin color and above average height), she is not a human as defined by Aslan but is actually a Jinn. The Jinn, or descendants of Lillith, inhabited CharnCharn is a fictional world in C. Lewis's book The Magician's Nephew one of the Chronicles of Narnia. The only living person in Charn at the time of the story is Jadis, its last Queen. During a battle with her sister, she spoke the Deplorable Word which ki, another world in Lewis's fictional universe.

Her second claim was that she was a servant of the Emperor-Over-Sea and ruled by his and AslanAslan ( Turkish: lion is the allegorical Christ figure in The Chronicles of Narnia by C. Lewis; the lion appears in all seven books of the series. In the course of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Aslan is put to death in the place of a traitor, subs's blessing. Because she was the first to rebel in Narnia, by the workings of the Deep Magic, she was given ownership and the right to kill all traitors and all those who willingly would follow her. She was in essence the Emperor's hangmanThis article is about the game Hangman''. For information about executioners, see Hanging Hangman is a pencil and paper guessing game for two players. One player thinks of a word and the other tries to guess it by suggesting letters. The word to guess is and carried out her executions on the stone table. In this way she could represent Lucifer, or Satan.

At the beginning of the book, it was explained to the Pevensies that an ancient prophecyFor other uses of the term, see prophecy (disambiguation . Prophecy in its most general sense is the communication of some revelation of divine will. However, the term is most commonly used to refer to the prediction of future events by supernatural means had been made concerning the overthrow of the White Witch, stating that when two "sons of Adam" and two "daughters of Eve" fill the four thrones at Cair Paravel as Kings and Queens of Narnia, the reign of the White Witch and the endless winter she caused would end. The White Witch was aware of the prophecy, and employed spiesLewis's fictional world of Narnia, Mr. Tumnus is a faun in the story The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe''. He is sometimes referred to as 'Faun Tumnus', and is described as having reddish skin, curly hair, horns on his forehead, cloven hooves and a lon to tell her of any human that came to Narnia.

In The Magician's Nephew, a prequel book to The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe, it is explained that the White Witch's real name is Jadis. She was the Empress and last inhabitant of an another world, known as Charn, which contained a great and ancient city inhabited by the Jinn. Jadis spoke "the Deplorable Word", which, when spoken properly, destroys every living thing (people, animals, plants etc.), to defeat her sister in her desire to rule Charn. Jadis came to Narnia via the Wood between Worlds, which is essentially an endless forest filled with pools of water that are portals to other worlds, (Earth and Narnia included). Charn was destroyed after Jadis left.