The witch part reminded me of an unconventional view of the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel. Have you ever thought of it like this:
An old lady lives happily in the woods in a gingerbread house she had built with love. One day two brats happen to come along and directly start destroying her house. In the sad end that poor old lady even gets brutally burned to death by those brats.
Haha that makes us change our entire view of Hansel and Gretel. Those little bastards haha