Halloweentown (Disney)

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Halloweentown is the name of a fictional community in four movies aired as works for television on The Disney Channel (presented as "Disney Channel Original Movies") between 1998 and 2006. The setting of Halloweentown is supposedly based on Halloween Town.

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Halloweentown proposes that fantasy beings such as trolls, living skeletons, and humanoids with varying numbers of heads, limbs and sensory organs are real, but separated themselves from Earth's history to escape humans' fear and persecution. These characters created their own community, Halloweentown, a thousand years ago in an alternate space. Travel between Halloweentown and the ordinary, historical world (which Halloweentown residents call "The Mortal World") is only possible with magical aid, and only at regulated times (until the events of the second movie create a less restricted traffic channel and events of the third film breaches that gap even more).

Although magic is present in many of the details of daily life of Halloweentown, it appears that only a limited number of persons actually practice or control magic. These people are human in appearance (sometimes mostly human), and called witches if female and warlocks if male. Magic is hereditary in their families.

The four Halloweentown movies concern episodes in the lives of the Cromwell/Piper family. The family matriarch, Agatha Cromwell, has been a pillar of Halloweentown society for centuries. Her daughter, Gwen Piper, married a mortal and chose to leave Halloween town for a life in the Mortal World. At the time of the movies she is apparently widowed. She has decided to raise her three children (Marnie, Dylan, and Sophie) apart from magic, and thus rejects contact with Halloweentown and the influence of her mother.