First I had hoped I could write the first story as a nice, simple explanation to magic but I couldn't resist of trying to make the girl a bit scary.

Grandpas can be great. Thank you for noticing him :)

Regarding witchcraft, I wasn't thinking at least the traditional kinds of zombies, eating people and without mind and all. Sucks to be reanimated or resurrected though, I can't imagine anything broken can be fixed to be perfect. There are always flaws.