Alice was supposedly born into the Deane and Malkin witch clans, her father a Deane, her mother a Malkin. Her (adoptive parents) were very violent people who constantly fought one another, hitting one another, and beat Alice just as much. Once her parents died, Alice felt no grief whatsoever and went to live with her aunt, Agnes Sowerbutts. It was a few years later that Bony Lizzie came to collect Alice from Agnes' residence and with that Alice had finally started to receive her training as a malevolent witch.In her first few weeks of training, Alice was introduced to Bony Lizzies servant, Nanna Nuckle. In Alices first lesson, Lizzie got Alice to sniff three pots to tell which one contained the poison and in the pot Alice chose was a small gremlin-like creature. Lizzie tells Alice this it is called Old Spig and that it is her familiar. As a test, Lizzie sends Alice out to Witchs Dell, home to dead witches, to retrieve something hidden in front of the tallest oak in the Dell. In the Dell, Alice meets a dead witch called Grim Gertrude, who was decapitated years before by Grimalkin. Gertrude tells offers Alice to be taught by her, who decides she will give Lizzie a chance. Gertrude also tells Alice a witch you will always be. Alice retrieves what she came for, a jug of unknown contents, and returns to Lizzie. Whilst making Lizzies dinner one night, Spig jumps in the stew and Alice insults him by calling him you dirty little thing. Later that night, Nanna Nuckle clouts Alice around the back of the head and when Alice asks what it was for, her reply is that Alice gave her cheek. Confused by this, Alice goes to bed. Alice reads about familiars and reads a section about Brain Guzzlers and sees that this is the species Old Spig is affiliated to. After this, Alice sees Spig coming out of Nannas head. She realises that had guzzled Nannas brains and has been using her body as a human vessel for a long while. Spig jumps in the stew again and once again Alices insults him, this time Spig says he will consume her brains and use her as a vessel. Lizzie sends Alice out to get another jug that she has buried in the Dell. After fetching the jug, Alice returns her mind set on killing Old Spig before he kills her. Before this Alice reads more about Brain-Guzzlers and finds that they are vulnerable to salt and can be slowed down by removing their limbs. After being unable to find any salt, Alice gets a sharp knife and attempts to kill Spig but fails after he escapes into Nannas head. Alice steals from salt from a farmers field and goes back to defeat Spig. She fills Nannas currently empty head with salt. Spig appears and tries to kill Alice but she hurls salt at him which burns corrosively. He attempts to escape into Nannas head and once inside, Alice stitches the scalp back on where Spig dies burning in salt. Show less «