Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)

by Terry Pratchett

“They’re both magic. If you can’t learn to ride an elephant, you can at least learn to ride a horse.” “What’s an elephant?” “A kind of badger,” said Granny. She hadn’t maintained forest-credibility for forty years by ever admitting ignorance.

If I was your mother I’d have run away before you were born.”

He grinned like a worried snake.

Granny had nothing against fortune-telling provided it was done badly by people with no talent for it. It was a different matter if people who ought to know better did it, though.