The Early Stages of Dementia

The Witch was going through some serious stuff inside of the ugly cavern of her cranium.
Since she is evil  by nature, the loss of her faculties has brought out the worst in her.

Step on a flower and the air fills with sweet perfume.
Step on an adder you get injected with poison....

So rewind to a few years ago, the witch was her venomous self around her neighbors, and alienated them horribly. There grew an unhealthy distance between them and her. In that space where neighbors meet and greet one another and become an extended family, she began to feel like the neighbors, having suffered so much agony because of her, must surely want revenge. In a stupid and completely unnecessary attempt to "protect" her evil self she carries a huge rake with her whenever she is in her yard, summer, spring, winter, and of course, fall. She looks like the devil himself, rake and all. Her husband carries a gun when mowing the yard and taking out the trash.
 
Golly, what an existence!