Gytha Ogg is a character from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.
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Nanny Ogg's is a witch and member of the Lancre coven.
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Character of Nanny Ogg is based on the Mother stereotype of the Triple Goddess myth.
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Nanny Ogg has been married three times, with fifteen children who survived their early childhood, and has many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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Nanny Ogg has a talent for getting along with people and fitting in.
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Nanny Ogg is wiser than Esme Weatherwax in some ways, and certainly wise enough not to show it.
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Nanny Ogg is seen as "one of the people" in a way that Esme is not.
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Nanny Ogg's appears to be kinder than Granny but is equally prepared to make tough decisions if necessary.
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In Pratchett's short story "The Sea and Little Fishes" Nanny Ogg identifies herself, and the Ogg family as a whole, as having immense natural magical talent, but as less willing to work it as hard as Weatherwaxes do.
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Nanny Ogg's bath night, as described in the novel Lords and Ladies, is an event feared by the entire population of Lancre, chiefly because she sings any of the above songs, accompanied by banjo, whilst bathing, and the tin bath amplifies her already overpowering vocal presence such that the audience is not so much "captive" as "hunted down".
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Nanny Ogg is known for her romantic exploits both in her girlhood and well beyond.
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Nanny Ogg is far too wise and busy to carry a handbag; she keeps all she needs in her knickers, lifting her skirts to reveal a knicker leg, and extracting whatever is needed at the time.
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Nanny Ogg's does carry a string shopping bag against emergencies, such as being presented with a loaf or a pie or a dozen buns .
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Nanny Ogg's has an ambiguous relationship with Count Casanunda, whom she met in Genua.
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Nanny Ogg is the muse and center of Leonard of Quirm's masterpiece, the Mona Ogg: her teeth follow you around the room, they say.
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Nanny Ogg's briefly took on Tiffany Aching as an apprentice after the death of her previous mentor, Miss Treason.
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Nanny Ogg's has demonstrated the ability to socialize with all kinds of people within a very little time which sometimes leaves Granny wondering 'if Gytha has some sort of special magic'.
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Nanny Ogg is notable for inventing small and almost pointless devices including the Lancrastian Army Knife which includes such attachments as "A Device for locating things that are lost" and "A Device to Remove the fundamental point from any argument".
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Nanny Ogg knows the Horseman's Word, a secret to pacifying belligerent stallions he has to shoe .
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Nanny Ogg is the leader of the Lancre Morris Men, who treat Morris dancing as something between a contact sport and a martial art.
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Neville is a thief, although Nanny considers him not to be, as 'it's only theft if it's not an Ogg doing the stealing'.
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Nanny Ogg has stolen all the lead from the Ankh-Morpork Opera House, before the events of Maskerade.
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