In the event of Muddledydo resigning her post as the village witch, and marrying the landlord of the local inn, it left a vacancy for a village witch. Word was sent around the lands, far and wide, advertising the fact that there was a vacancy in the village of Simpleton, for a witch, whose duties would be the usual thing of looking after the locals and their families, plus the farmers and their animals, etc. etc. It did not take long before the villagers received word of several witches most of them young and newly qualified, who were looking for just such a post. To cut a short story, short, the village accepted the one they thought would best be suited for the post. Mistress Sillybeth was not at all like Muddledydo; she had not made herself look how a witch would usually look like, she was a beautiful dumb blonde, sorry, straw blonde.