We still burn the odd witch in our village occasionally (just for fun these days, nothing to do with religion) but we don't duck them first - it makes them too hard to light, what with the price of petrol.

"Can we have a dotty elderly lady herbalist who lives in a muddle of a cottage with a huge overgrown garden filled with herbs "

"Would you settle for a mad cat woman?"

Apart from the 'elderly' (she's 15 years younger than me), these sound very much like mresleveller who, of course, I would want living in my village.