Discworld - Wandering Witches

With Witches Abroad, we return to the Witches of Lancre.  Aside from the main story there is still the building of the history of the kingdom and nearby places.  In this story about stories and the power of narrative on the Discworld, we learn more about the Disc's version of Maleficent: Black Aliss.  In Wyrd Sisters there is reference to her as the witch responsible for the Sleeping Beauty story as well as a hint that she went loopy and may have been the constructor of the gingerbread house in Light Fantastic.  When the witches encounter another sleeping castle, Nanny refers to it as a "Black Aliss job".  She even mentions being taken to meet her when she was still learning her craft.

It's things like this that Pratchett uses to gradually fill out the history of the Disc.  It helps to know that there have been things going on for years before the "present".  We've seen the creation and end of the universe, the creation of the Disc, the Tsortean War, the beginning of the Kingdom of Djelybeybi, and a continued the filling out of the previous generation of the Ramtops and even hints from Ankh-Morpork.
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Appearing in this book:

"A Witch should never stand between two mirrors."
"A Wizard's Staff Has a Knob on the End"

"The Hedgehog Song"

Ankh-Morpork

Belief and Creation

Black Aliss

Cripple Mr. Onion

Death

Dwarf bread
Emberella

Genua

Granny Weatherwax

Granny: Smiling/humming/ear cleaning/tch tch tch

Greebo and his Changing

Inspiration particles

Jason Ogg

Lobsang Dibbler

Magrat Garlick

Nanny Ogg

Ninj as a verb

Old Mother Dismass

Sean Ogg

Skund

Skund

The Assassin's Guild

The Chaos Butterfly

The Million to One Chance

The Morris Dance

The Ramtops

The Way of Mrs. Cosmopolite

The Weatherwax Family Being Good at Magic

Touch of Glod / Glod the Dwarf