Jadis

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Jadis is the central villain of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.

She is often called the White Witch, but her full honorific title is: Her Imperial Majesty Jadis, Queen of Narnia, Chatelaine of Cair Paravel, Empress of the Lone Islands, and, previously, Empress of Charn.

Influence

Writer Nicola Griffith describes her memories of a scene from The Magician's Nephew :

What stuck in my mind [was] what happened next: the awakening of Jadis, the great and terrible Queen of Charn, in all her six-feet tall, bare-armed, knife-wielding glory. She immediately became both an eroticised image — like the eponymous magician, part of me sat up straight and thought, "dem fine woman... spirited gel" — and a facet of my self-identity. Even today I find bare arms and a desire to take over the world a reasonable response to some situations. And, oh, I like knives.

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