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Mary was a witch, I think we need to admit this.


Mary Poppins was a witch. No other way could it explain the things she was able to do short of being magic. While she was a good witch, she was still a witch. I think to deny this fact any longer is living in denial.

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it's more simple to say she was a woman.

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Fairy or sensient elemental. Most definitely of magic. Bert also, but more of a "youngster", not as powerful as Mary.

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I always thought whatever Mary Poppins was she was singular as it. I don't think she was anything except herself. I don't see her as a witch or a fairy as some replied. She seems to be just someone the author created and who is symbolic in a way.

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She's not a witch, just because someone has magic doesn't make them a witch.

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It's actually very clear in the mnovioe that she is not a witch. When she first appears to the Bank's children they say very clearly that witches have brooms and Poppins does not. End of story.

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I'll bet on Halloween you give kids religious tracts instead of candy. YOU are a witch.

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Are you for real???

First off, this was a work of FICTION.

Secondly, I'd like to get some of what you are smoking.

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> Mary Poppins was a witch. No other way could it explain the things she was able to do

She could use magic. That's really all we know. She might be a witch or she might be a fairy, as the books say. The movie never explains it. And, it turns out, it really doesn't matter. It wasn't important to the plot.

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And you know what the Bible says?

"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to burn" or something like that.

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Or an angel perhaps. For all we know her "magic" May have been a gift from God.

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I don't know about her being a Witch, but, in the original books, she was a BITCH. Just like her creator,

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