Scarlet Witch Fact — October 28, 2026

Today's Fact

Verified against independent sources. Issues cited below.

WANDA WALKED THE WITCHES' ROAD WITH A GHOST — TO MEND WITCHCRAFT ITSELF!

The Featured Fact

After stepping away from the Avengers, Wanda Maximoff noticed something nobody else could feel: witchcraft itself was sick. Spells misfired, old magic soured, and the damage spread along bloodlines of witches who had no idea their craft was rotting underneath them. In Scarlet Witch Vol. 2 #1 (2015), by James Robinson and Vanesa Del Rey, Wanda appointed herself the repair crew of an entire discipline of magic.

Her only travelling companion was dead. Agatha Harkness, murdered years earlier during Wanda's own breakdown, returned as a ghost — translucent, sardonic and entirely unbothered by being deceased — to advise her former student. Together they traced the sickness from a rage-demon in Greece to a possessed Man-Bull in Spain, and in Scarlet Witch #3 they stepped through a portal onto the Witches' Road, a plane that exists only for practitioners of magic.

The Road charged Wanda a toll no Avenger ever had: every spell she cast there aged her spirit, and the path still handed her the answer to a question she had stopped asking. Waiting on the Road was a young Natalya Maximoff — the previous Scarlet Witch, and Wanda's biological mother. By Scarlet Witch #14, Natalya's spirit sacrificed itself to save the goddess Witchcraft from Chaos, and that sacrifice pulled Agatha back into the land of the living.

Why It's Obscure

A solo detective tour through dying magic, guided by a dead woman who would not stop giving notes.

2015

Scarlet Witch Vol. 2 #1 — Wanda leaves the Avengers behind, senses that witchcraft is broken, and takes on its repair as a one-woman job with Agatha's ghost riding along.

2016

Scarlet Witch #3–#4 — Wanda and Agatha enter the Witches' Road hunting the Emerald Warlock's Irish curse, and meet Natalya Maximoff fighting a mystical beast on the path.

2016

Scarlet Witch #14 — Natalya gives up her spirit to save Witchcraft itself, and her sacrifice resurrects Agatha, closing the journey the ghost began.

The Toll

Aging for magic — on the Road, Wanda's spirit prematurely aged each time she cast, so every solution she worked literally cost her years she could feel.

Gallery

Comic art of the character — no AI imagery, nothing mislabeled.

Scarlet Witch in red on a surreal magical road with white trees — **One Step on the Road**Wanda in full scarlet regalia on a dreamlike magical road — a caption inside the panel itself names the place: the Witches' Road.

Ghostly translucent Agatha Harkness beside Wanda on the Witches Road — **The Ghost Guide**Agatha appears as a pale, translucent spirit walking the Road beside Wanda — her ghostly form is plainly visible against the living witch in red.

Natalya Maximoff in a red headdress with sparkling magic at her hand, labelled with her name — **The First Scarlet Witch**Natalya Maximoff, Wanda's mother and the previous bearer of the Scarlet Witch name — the portrait is labelled with her name in the panel itself.

Sources

Every claim above is verified against at least two of these independent sources.

Bullpen Bulletins

Scarlet Witch: The Witches' Road, Explained — Marvel.comVerifies: Wanda sensed witchcraft was wrong, Agatha's ghost accompanied her, they entered the Witches' Road in Scarlet Witch (2015) #3, met Natalya in #4, and Wanda's spirit aged when she used magic there.
How Agatha Harkness Became a Ghost — Marvel.comVerifies: Agatha returned as a ghost in Scarlet Witch (2015) #1 to help Wanda investigate the mystical disturbance, and Natalya's sacrifice in #14 brought Agatha back to life.
The Witches' Road in Marvel Comics — ScreenRantVerifies: the Road debuted in James Robinson's 2016 Scarlet Witch series, where Wanda and the spirit of a deceased Agatha travelled it seeking the source of a sickness within witchcraft itself.