The apple seller, Mary thought.

She'd said she was an apple seller and he wasn't about to doubt a witch's word.

The apple seller was promptly surrounded by hopeful customers, but his remaining wares proved disappointingly ordinary.

Grimaldi sought inspiration for the character of the apple seller by walking around the streets of London and observing real-life tradespeople.

"On radio and television they are saying all of the world is helping us," said Ahmed Ali, an apple seller who lived through the Taliban years.

I saw the apple sellers on the street corners.

He'd been told not to let witches pass, but no-one had said anything about apple sellers.

I should warn you,' she said, 'I am not, as I may appear, a simple apple seller.

She even smiled at an old apple seller who approached her with a matching smile on her wrinkled face.

Not a witch, an apple seller An apple seller.