Katie and the Invisible Umbrella Hello, this is Natasha and I'm here with

a story about Katie who is an ordinary girl. But there's just one thing that's a bit different

about her. She's a witch and she can do magic tricks.

She's grandmother had all sorts of beautiful but rather old fashioned magical things.

Many of them weren't so useful these days because science has caught up with magic in

so many ways. For instance, before electric kettles were invented, witches had magic

coldions that boiled the water without any need to put them on the fire.

Well, Katie's grandmother still used one of those to make her tea and coffee.

And before phones were invented, witches used to call one another using crystal balls.

And Katie's grandmother absolutely refused to get a mobile phone or a computer.

So if you wanted to send her a text message, you had to use a crystal ball.

And of course, she still kept a witch's broomstick.

But of course, these days most witches prefer to drive a car or take the bus.

Because broomsticks are not very comfortable.

But one of grandma's most beautiful possessions was her umbrella.

It had a golden handle that was shaped like a head of a Griffin.

The fabric was decorated with old fashioned magic symbols, which Katie could not understand.

Because these days most witches learnt to do spells in modern languages like English or French.

But they were very beautiful and Katie loved looking at them.

Grandma was always a little scatty, even in her young days.

But as she got older, she became more and more forgetful.

One day she left her umbrella in the Petisserie shop.

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