Narnian ChroniclesA local companion
Character

Jadis

Also known as White Witch, the Witch, Queen of Charn

The last queen of Charn, brought into the Wood between the Worlds by Digory. In Narnia she becomes the White Witch and imposes the long winter that precedes the Pevensies’ arrival.

This encyclopedia follows the whole story. Plot details from all seven chronicles may appear below.

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Primary sources

In the chronicles

These links are generated from exact-name appearances in the supplied novels. Each opens the cited paragraph in the local reader.

The Magician's Nephew11 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter V · paragraph 26"I," said the Queen. "I, Jadis, the last Queen, but the Queen of the World."Open passage →
  2. Chapter V · paragraph 30"That was the secret of secrets," said Queen Jadis. "It had long been known to the great kings of our race that there was a word which, if spoken with the proper …Open passage →
  3. Chapter VI · paragraph 5Now that you saw her in the wood, Queen Jadis looked different. She was much paler than she had been; so pale that hardly any of her beauty was left. And she…Open passage →
  4. Chapter VI · paragraph 14…ression. It was the look that all wicked Magicians have, the "Mark" which Jadis had said she could not find in Digory's face. One good thing about seeing the two together was that you would n…Open passage →
  5. Chapter VII · paragraph 5"What woman is this?" said Jadis. "Down on your knees, minion, before I blast you."Open passage →
  6. Chapter VII · paragraph 10… "regrettable violence--must really protest," but at a single glance from Jadis he became speechless. She drove him out of the room and out of the house; and Digory came running down the stai…Open passage →
  7. Chapter VIII · paragraph 49"Prepare the Magic, old fool," said Jadis.Open passage →
  8. Chapter VIII · paragraph 51"Oh, it's rings, is it?" cried Jadis, leaping off the horse. She would have had her hands in Digory's pocket before you could say knife, but Digory …Open passage →
  9. Chapter IX · paragraph 10Nobody, least of all Jadis, could have missed at that range. The bar struck the Lion fair between the eyes. It glanced off and fell with a…Open passage →
  10. Chapter XV · paragraph 6…y tyrants who care no more for joy and justice and mercy than the Empress Jadis. Let your world beware. That is the warning. Now for the command. As soon as you can, take from this Uncle of y…Open passage →
  11. Chapter XV · paragraph 10Most people were wildly looking round for Jadis and the horse. No one took any notice of the children for no one had seen them go or noticed them coming back. …Open passage →
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe18 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter II · paragraph 37"Like what I've done," said the Faun. "Taken service under the White Witch. That's what I am. I'm in the pay of the White Witch."Open passage →
  2. Chapter II · paragraph 38"The White Witch? Who is she?"Open passage →
  3. Chapter IV · paragraph 42…n having lunch with dear Mr. Tumnus, the Faun, and he's very well and the White Witch has done nothing to him for letting me go, so he thinks she can't have found out and perhaps everything is goin…Open passage →
  4. Chapter IV · paragraph 43"The White Witch?" said Edmund, "who's she?"Open passage →
  5. Chapter VI · paragraph 37…aiting his trial on a charge of High Treason against her Imperial Majesty Jadis, Queen of Narnia, Chatelaine of Cair Paravel, Empress of the Lone Islands, etc., also of comforting her said Ma…Open passage →
  6. Chapter VI · paragraph 43…e isn't a real queen at all," answered Lucy, "she's a horrible witch, the White Witch. Everyone--all the wood people--hate her. She has made an enchantment over the whole country so that it is alwa…Open passage →
  7. Chapter VII · paragraph 41…two small hills, and he was almost sure they were the two hills which the White Witch had pointed out to him when he parted from her at the lamp-post that other day. And then between them, he thoug…Open passage →
  8. Chapter VIII · paragraph 43…of Eve sit in those four thrones, then it will be the end not only of the White Witch's reign but of her life, and that is why we had to be so cautious as we came along, for if she knew about you f…Open passage →
  9. Chapter VIII · paragraph 55…ement. "Don't you understand?" said Mr. Beaver. "He's gone to her, to the White Witch. He has betrayed us all."Open passage →
  10. Chapter IX · paragraph 2…e door handle; and just before Mr. Beaver had begun telling them that the White Witch wasn't really human at all but half a Jinn and half a giantess, Edmund had got outside into the snow and cautio…Open passage →
  11. Chapter IX · paragraph 3…ry good excuse, however, for deep down inside him he really knew that the White Witch was bad and cruel.Open passage →
  12. Chapter XI · paragraph 5…ay the first dwarf came back and announced that the sledge was ready. The White Witch rose and went out, ordering Edmund to go with her. The snow was again falling as they came into the courtyard b…Open passage →
  13. Chapter XII · paragraph 1While the Dwarf and the White Witch were saying this, miles away the Beaver and the children were walking on hour after hour into what seemed a del…Open passage →
  14. Chapter XII · paragraph 18"He has tried to betray them and joined the White Witch, O Aslan," said Mr. Beaver. And then something made Peter say:Open passage →
  15. Chapter XIII · paragraph 53…or the wind rustling the leaves. And still the talk between Aslan and the White Witch went on.Open passage →
  16. Chapter XIV · paragraph 42… what they had to do, had approached him. "Bind him, I say!" repeated the White Witch. The hags made a dart at him and shrieked with triumph when they found that he made no resistance at all. Then …Open passage →
  17. Chapter XVI · paragraph 36…t to the shores of the Eastern sea the great beast flung himself upon the White Witch. Lucy saw her face lifted towards him for one second with an expression of terror and amazement. Then Lion and …Open passage →
  18. Chapter XVII · paragraph 21… At first much of their time was spent in seeking out the remnants of the White Witch's army and destroying them, and indeed for a long time there would be news of evil things lurking in the wilder…Open passage →
Prince Caspian4 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter IV · paragraph 13…res in those days," said Caspian. "Wonderful adventures. Once there was a White Witch and she made herself Queen of the whole country. And she made it so that it was always winter. And then two boy…Open passage →
  2. Chapter IV · paragraph 68"Then it's true about the Kings and Queens too, and about the White Witch?" said Caspian.Open passage →
  3. Chapter VI · paragraph 12…s to pieces or drive them out of Narnia. Anyone or anything, Aslan or the White Witch, do you understand?"Open passage →
  4. Chapter XII · paragraph 42"The White Witch!" cried three voices all at once, and from the noise Peter guessed that three people had leaped to their feet.Open passage →
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader2 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter III · paragraph 5… no," said Edmund. "They were Narnian before our time--in the days of the White Witch."Open passage →
  2. Chapter XIII · paragraph 62…ucy, "I've seen something like it before. It was a knife like it that the White Witch used when she killed Aslan at the Stone Table long ago."Open passage →
The Silver Chair2 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter IV · paragraph 56…some deep scheme against Narnia. Long, long ago, at the very beginning, a White Witch came out of the North and bound our land in snow and ice for a hundred years. And we think this may be one of t…Open passage →
  2. Chapter XV · paragraph 39…ll saw what it meant; how a wicked Witch (doubtless the same kind as that White Witch who had brought the Great Winter on Narnia long ago) had contrived the whole thing, first killing Rilian's moth…Open passage →
The Last Battle2 cited passages⌄
  1. Chapter IV · paragraph 32…housand years before; and it was then that they had defeated the terrible White Witch and ended the Hundred Years of Winter, and after that they had reigned (all four of them together) at Cair Para…Open passage →
  2. Chapter VIII · paragraph 34… of. He spoke of Swanwhite the Queen who had lived before the days of the White Witch and the Great Winter, who was so beautiful that when she looked into any forest pool the reflection of her face…Open passage →
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PlaceCharn

A dying world whose ruined capital is discovered by Digory and Polly.

→CharacterDigory Kirke

A London boy whose attempt to save his mother leads him through the Wood between the Worlds and into the creation of Narnia.

→PlaceStone Table

The ancient table where the White Witch claims Edmund under the Deep Magic.

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