Agnes Nutter is one of the main characters in Amazon series Good Omens. She is a witch from the 17th century. She wrote The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch.
Background[]
Agnes Nutter was born in 1600 AD and died in 1656 AD, she was the last true witch burned in England. A true prophet, she could see the future, but it's still unclear how much she could understand of it, especially far into the future.
Anathema Device is Agnes Nutter's great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter.
Significance in series[]
"The Book"[]
Agnes Nutter is arrested in 1656 and burned at the stake as a witch. Before the burning, Agnes concealed fifty pounds of gunpowder and thirty pounds of roofing nails in her petticoats so when it caught fire, the stake explodes.
After Agnes Nutter is burned at the stake, she leaves behind a box with The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch to be given to her daughter, Virtue, and son-in-law, John. The prophecies are accurate but meaningless to the couple in 1658.
Agnes wrote The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch just for the free Author's copy, which is entrusted to her descendants and is well looked after. The book contains several thousand prophecies, mostly relating to her family through the centuries, and each and every single one true.
"The Very Last Day of the Rest of Their Lives"[]
There was a second manuscript written but never published, kept in a box and entrusted to a law firm for safe keeping for 300 years. The box was delivered 300 years later to her descendant, Anathema, in 2019 after the Armageddon-that-wasn't.
Personality[]
Agnes had a wicked sense of humor. When her house is approached by the people planning to kill her, she jokes that they are late, and that she should have been burned to death 10 minutes ago. She also wasn't shy about letting others know she had abilities, and often cured her neighbours of ailments.
Quotes[]
"Thou art tardy. I should have been aflame ten minutes since." - "The Book"
"Come close, until the fire near scorch ye. For I charge ye that all must see how the last true witch in England dies." - "The Book"
Prophecies[]
Many of the prophecies are vague and unhelpful until you are smack in the middle of them, or until you can look back with some context and understand them in hindsight. This made the book essentially useless to anyone outside the family and it never sold a single copy. However the book itself and the cards the book was printed from were heavily speculated over by the family and are shown to contain notes from Devices through the years.
"The Book"[]
- Prophecy 1111: "An the Great Hound Sharl come and the Two Powers sharl watch in... Goeth where is its Master, Where the... Notte, and he shall name it, True to... and Hell shall flee it."
- Prophecy 2214: "In December 1980, an Apple will arise no man can eat. Invest thy money in Master Jobbes's machine, and good fortune will tend thy days."
- Prophecy 2213: "I tell ye this, and I charge ye with my wordes. Four shall ride, and three shall ride the sky as two, and one shall ride in flames, and there shall be no stopping them. Not fish, nor rain, neither devil or angel. And ye shall be there also, Anathema."
- Prophecy 2315: "Sum say It cometh in London Town, or New Yorke, butte they be Wronge, for the place is Taddes Fild, Stronge inne hys powr, he cometh like a knight innne the fief, he divideth the Worlde into 4 partes, he bringeth the storme.
- Prophecy 3001: "Behind the Eagle's Neste, a great Ash hath fallen.
- Prophecy 3007: "Prayers and hope ... / Brings forth sorrow and serpents reign / For the devil lucks in plain sight / Under an arc of pale moonlight."
- Prophecy 3008: "When that the angel readeth these words of mine, in his shoppe of other menne's books, then the final days are certes upon us. Open thine eyes to understand. Open thine eyes and rede, I do say, foolish principalitee, for thy cocoa doth grow cold."
- Prophecy 3009: "Seven who hold the Scepter shall be killed...of them shall become a saint."
- Prophecy 3011: "The exer... and churches be laid open to ... oppressed shall prevail, and oppose the cruelty of foreigners. For a Boar of Cornwall shall give his assistance, and trample their necks under his feet."
- Prophecy 3012: "A shower of blood shall rain, and a raging famine shall afflict mankind. When these things happen, the Red Dragon shall grieve, but when his fatigue is over he shall recover his strength. Then shall misfortunes hasten upon the White Dragon, and the buildings of his gardens be pulled down."
- Prophecy 3017: "I see Four Riding, bringing the Ende and the Angells of Hell ride with them, And three shall Rise. And Four and Four Together be Four and the Dark Angel sharl Own Defeat, Yette the Manne sharl claim his Own."
- Prophecy 3477: Lette the wheel of Fate turne, let harts en-join, there are othere fyres than mine; when the wynd blowethe the blos-soms, reach oute one to anothere, for the calm cometh when Redde and Whyte and Blacke and Pale approche to Peas is Our Professioune.
- Prophecy 3817: "The Number of the Beast is in the Revelayting of Sainte John, call hym in Taddesfield. And ye will know hym by this sign, that when ye do call hym, the Lesser Beaste will walk upon his hind legs like unto a Dancing Bear."
- Prophecy 3819: "When Orient's chariot inverted be, four wheles in the skye, a man with bruises be upon Youre Bedde, aching his hedd for willow fine, a manne who testeth with a pyn yette his hart be.
- Prophecy 3988: "Whene menne of crocus come frome the Earth and green manne frome the Sky, yette ken not why, and Pluto's barres quitte the Light-ning castels, and sunken lands riseth, and Levia-than runneth free, and Brazil is vert, then Three cometh together and Four arise, upon iron horses ride; I tell you the ende draweth nigh."
- Prophecy 3989: "He is not what he says he is."
- Prophecy 4009: "Where the Hogg's back ends the young beast will take the world and Adam's line will end in fire and darkness."
- Prophecy 4019: "When Orient's Chariot Inverted be a man with bruises up thy bed, aching his head for willow fine."
- Prophecy 4020: "Let the wheel of fate turne, let harts enjoin, there are othere fyres than mine; when the whirl wynd whirls, reach oute one to another."
- Prophecy 5001: "When the skies are crimson seen, then ye both must stand between the world of life and the world of war, where the iron bird lands no more."
- Prophecy 5004: "When alle is sayed and all is done, ye must choose your faces wisely, for soon enouff, ye will be playing with fyre."
"Hard Times"[]
- "Do not buy Betamax." (specified as referring to 1972)
"Saturday Morning Funtime"[]
- "When Robin's blue chariot inverted be, three wheels in the sky, a man with bruises be upon your bed, aching his head for willow fine."
- The end of the world should be in just over four hours and it starts in Tadfield.
- The wind will drop off long enough for Newton and Anathema to get back inside.
- "Let the wheel of fate turn, let harts enjoin, there are othere fyres than mine; when the whirl wynd whirls, reach oute one to another."
"The Doomsday Option"[]
- Anathema and Newton will have sex only once the first time.
- "The two of them must stand between love and war, where the iron bird lands no more."
"The Very Last Day of the Rest of Their Lives"[]
- "He's not what he says he is."
- "When alle is sayed and all is done, ye must choose your faces wisely, for soon enouff ye will be playing with fyre."
Notes and trivia[]
- Agnes Nutter used her gifts for medicine and health; it is mentioned in the scene leading up to her death that she had a talent for curing various ailments among her neighbours and that she liked to go jogging (as a result, she is viewed by the townsfolk around her as bizarre and exhibiting clearly demonically-influenced behaviour).
- Josie Lawrence also played Agnes Nutter in the 2015 BBC radio play adaptation of Good Omens.