Morag Morag was a Tulgah sorceress who resided on the Forest Moon of Endor . The sworn enemy of the Ewoks of Bright Tree Village , she once stole from them a powerful artifact , the Sunstar - Shadowstone , believing that it would help her conquer the forest moon . During the theft , she was opposed by the Ewok Logray , and , amused by his antics , she brought the Ewok back to her fortress on Mount Thunderstone to act as her servant . However , this proved to be her undoing , as before she could use the artifact , the stone was broken in half by her Ewok servant . Logray escaped the witch ' s lair with the light half of the stone , the " Sunstar , " and used the powers he had learned from watching Morag to protect Bright Tree Village . Morag held a personal grudge against the Ewok shaman , and constantly sought revenge , hoping to destroy the Ewoks and gain possession of the other half of the stone . With the dark side of the artifact , the Shadowstone , embedded in her magical staff , Morag menaced the Ewoks for nearly two hundred local years . Although Morag sometimes won minor victories over the Ewoks , Logray was able to keep his people from total destruction . Around 3 ABY , Morag implemented a number of plots to destroy Bright Tree Village , enlisting the aid of local Phlog s for some and coercing the Duloks into helping with others . During this time , she was often foiled by the efforts of the Ewok Wicket Wystri Warrick and his friends , who kept Morag from any lasting success . However , she eventually found her chance to confront Logray by exploiting the carelessness of the young Ewok children . Kidnapping Wicket and his friends , Teebo , Latara , and Princess Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka , she ransomed the group in exchange for the Sunstar . In a confrontation at her lair , Morag overpowered the Ewok shaman , obtaining the Sunstar and finally reuniting the two broken halves . However , the resulting power surge collapsed her fortress , and activated the volcano within Mount Thunderstone . Only the power of the Sunstar saved Morag from death , instead transforming her into an imposing lava creature . As Morag attempted to finish off her old nemesis , Logray activated a geyser of water , freezing Morag into a statue of stone . With one final attempt to destroy the Ewoks , Morag lunged for Logray but collapsed into a pile of rubble . Biography . Early life . Morag was born on the Forest Moon of Endor more than two centuries before the Battle of Yavin . Like most Tulgah , Morag had a preoccupation with the pursuit of magic , attempting to increase her own powers . However , unlike others of her species , who used their knowledge to become great healers , Morag twisted her powers for evil , hoping to conquer the forest moon . Using her dark arts , Morag enslaved many creatures to her will . Among her servants was an enormous winged creature , known as a mantigrue , who did her bidding . Morag and her pets resided in a precariously located fortress on the peak of Mount Thunderstone , a dormant volcano . Morag ' s lair and the surrounding area were protected by Yuzzum guards , who rode rakazzak beasts across the devastated wasteland . Morag was a devotee of the Night Spirit , and as such , other species that professed fealty to the dark deity looked up to Morag , occasionally visiting her realm to ask for her aid . In particular , the Duloks would prostrate themselves before Morag , requesting local remedies for their ailments . Morag helped these creatures in order to secure favors for the future , but she generally looked down upon them as incompetent and foul , often lording her formidable powers over them . In this fashion , Morag became generally feared by the peoples of Endor , who tried to avoid her presence . Theft of the Sunstar . At some point , Morag came into contact with the Ewoks of Bright Tree Village . The Ewoks were in possession of an incredibly powerful artifact known as the Sunstar - Shadowstone . Knowing the impressive capabilities behind the stone , the Ewoks hid the artifact , never using it . However , even with their precautions , Morag sought out the Sunstar - Shadowstone , using her mantigrue to attack the village . After grabbing the stone , Morag left the village on top her winged beast . Although seemingly unopposed in her theft , one Ewok , Logray , stepped forth to oppose her . As the mantigrue flew from the village , Logray grabbed onto its tail , which brought him back to Morag ' s sanctuary . Morag was amused by Logray ' s antics and decided to spare him . Back at her lair , Morag forced Logray into servitude , making him clean her fortress among other menial tasks . Unknown to Morag , Logray spent his time observing and learning from her . After mastering her magic , Logray was able to turn it against Morag , hitting her with a large blast of energy . The attack broke the Sunstar - Shadowstone into two pieces . Logray snatched up the Sunstar and escaped from the mountain stronghold back to Bright Tree Village . Morag was infuriated over this turn of events ; without the other half of the stone , the artifact ' s power was significantly weakened . However , Morag still retained possession of the Shadowstone , which she attached to her staff . This conflict led to an obsessive grudge , with Morag continually trying to get revenge on Logray by threatening his village , hoping to reacquire the other half of the stone . Sunberry tree plot . One of Morag ' s attempts to threaten the village revolved around the removal of the village ' s sunberry tree s . The sunberries that were produced by these trees were an important part of the Ewoks ' diet , helping them overcome ailments . Morag sent her mantigrue to destroy the sunberry trees , depriving the village of the important fruit . Without the trees , many of the Ewoks became ill until they were able to replant new trees . In order to prevent Morag from using the same plot once more , Logray devised a method to hide the trees from the mantigrue by covering them in shadowroot soap , which made the trees invisible . To warn future generations of the mantigrue ' s attack and the effect it had had on the village , the Ewoks recorded the first destruction of the sunberry trees in a scroll kept within Logray ' s hut , within the village . At some point around this time , Morag came into contact with the Sanyassan Marauders . The Sanyassan s ' General Yavid negotiated with Morag to ensure that she would not attack their territory . Morag possessed the power to destroy the Marauders if she saw fit , and the meeting proved important for the Sanyassans ' continued presence on the forest moon . The Eye of the Kreegon . In another attempt to destroy the Ewoks of Bright Tree Village , Morag hoped to reanimate a Kreegon , a beast that had been killed by the father of Chief Chirpa , the contemporary ruler of the village . Morag gathered the skeleton of the Kreegon and brought it back to her lair . However , in order to reanimate the corpse , Morag required the eye of the beast . Chirpa ' s father had brought the eye to the village as a trophy , and so Morag formulated a plan to steal the artifact . To distract the Ewoks from the theft , Morag conjured a storm with her staff . With strong winds and lightning forming above the village , Morag sent two of her servants to infiltrate the Ewoks ' community and find the eye . As a further effort to distract the Ewoks , Morag sent a vision of her face above the village . Through the conjured image , Morag conversed with Chirpa and Logray , taunting them over their impending doom . Logray prepared to banish the image from the village , but before he could , Morag ' s face disappeared , confident that her thieves had completed their job . Upon Morag ' s disappearance , the Ewoks discovered the theft . Surmising Morag ' s plan , Chirpa mounted a bordok and made his way toward the Tulgah witch ' s lair . Back at her stronghold , Morag waited for her thieves , hoping for their quick return . When her servants returned with the eye , Morag hurried to the depths of her lair , where she had stashed the skeleton . Upon placing the eye within the Kreegon ' s lifeless corpse , the beast reformed , even regaining its flesh . Using her staff , Morag exerted her control over the Kreegon , bringing it outside of her fortress , ready to send it on a mission to destroy Bright Tree Village . However , upon her departure from the mountain , she witnessed Chirpa leading his bordok toward her home . Amused by Chirpa ' s tactics , Morag appeared behind the Ewok chief , taunting him for coming to her abode . Although Chirpa dismissed her threats , Morag summoned the Kreegon , ready to do battle with the Ewok warrior . Chirpa ' s bordok fled from the scene , but Chirpa readied his spear to kill the beast and thus emulate his father . However , upon throwing his weapon , the spear bounced harmlessly off the Kreegon . Morag laughed loudly at the Chief ' s attempt , claiming that the Kreegon could not be harmed while she was controlling it . As Chirpa prepared to meet death , Morag stopped the Kreegon from finishing off the Ewok . Despite the Ewok ' s claims that he would never ask for mercy from the likes of her , Morag laughed at the Chief , claiming that she would not finish him off until the Kreegon had destroyed his village . Using her powers , Morag conjured up several vine s to detain Chirpa , and she then sent her beast to rampage through the forest . Morag returned to her lair momentarily , but upon leaving her prisoner , the Ewoks Wicket Wystri Warrick and Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka arrived and cut the Chief free . Morag laughed off the escape , knowing that her beast was still invincible and that Chirpa ' s freedom would make no difference to her overall plan . However , Morag ' s confidence proved to be premature . Chirpa and his charges led the Kreegon away from the village and toward the nearby Molten Sulfur Pits . Chirpa sent the creature plunging into the fiery sulfur , but its invincibility held true , and the Kreegon emerged from the pits covered in molten sulfur but still alive . Knowing that only Morag ' s powers could defeat the Kreegon , the Ewoks led the beast back to the Tulgah witch ' s lair . Chirpa confronted Morag , claiming that they had been able to destroy the Kreegon , taunting her into action . Morag did not believe the Ewok leader , but she responded to the insults , pointing her staff at the Ewoks . As Morag fired a blast from her staff at the group , they quickly dodged out of the way . However , the Kreegon had been slowly approaching the Ewoks at the same time . Although the blast missed Morag ' s enemies , it hit the Kreegon full in the face . Morag ' s magic destroyed the Kreegon ' s eye , transforming her beast back into its original skeletal form . Morag yelled her frustration while the skeleton of the Kreegon collapsed upon the Tulgah witch , pinning her to the floor of her fortress . With Morag temporarily trapped , the Ewoks left Mount Thunderstone , laughing over the defeat of their adversary . Kidnap of Bright Tree Village . Morag soon freed herself from the Kreegon ' s skeleton , and she quickly prepared for another plot against the Ewoks . While residing in her fortress , Morag used her stone mirror to gaze out on the Ewoks ; she spied Logray relaxing in a hot spring . Knowing that the old shaman had put down his guard , since he had neglected to bring his staff of power into the pool with him , Morag used her powers to freeze the water , trapping him . With Logray out of the way , Morag gathered one of her beasts and made her way toward Bright Tree Village . Unopposed , Morag strolled directly into the village alongside her beast . She quickly froze with her staff the Ewoks that tried to flee , preventing any sort of retreat . Confronting Chief Chirpa last , Morag conjured an image of Logray trapped away from the village , exclaiming that without their shaman , the Ewoks would now become her servants at her mountain fortress . However , Chirpa refused , stating that even her powers would not be enough to take them away from their forest . Convinced by Chirpa ' s confidence , Morag decided that if she could not take the Ewoks out of the forest , then she would take the forest away from the Ewoks . Using her staff , the Tulgah witch spawned a glowing thorn bush on the forest floor . As the bush rapidly grew , Morag claimed that the plant would quickly draw up all the moisture in the forest , depriving the environment of its much - needed water supply . To Morag ' s amusement , Chirpa accurately surmised the situation : without water , the forest would soon be dead . Wile Morag ' s plant rapidly grew , two of the Ewoks , Wicket and Kneesaa , decided to escape the imprisoned village and rescue Logray . Although Morag ' s pet beast attempted to stop them , they were able to incapacitate the creature by pouring honey on it . Furious that her minion had failed to stop the Ewoks from escaping the village , Morag commanded her beast to pursue them , lest she turn him into a grub toad . Although the creature hastened to obey , the two Ewok children defeated the creature yet again . The Ewoks then made their way to Logray ' s position . Still trapped in the pool , Logray told the Ewoks to take his staff back to the village and place it at the plant ' s base in order to destroy it . When the Ewoks returned to their village , Morag became infuriated that another one of her plans was in danger of falling apart . To prevent the destruction of her plant , Morag used her powers to fly above the glowing bush , transforming it from a simple plant into an anthropomorphic beast . Since the plant was now mobile , it could easily evade the staff ' s power , rendering Logray ' s plan to destroy the creature useless . Morag commanded her thorn monster to chase Wicket and Kneesaa as they fled through the forest . With each step of the creature , it absorbed more and more of the forest ' s water supply , slowly depriving the area of moisture . However , as the Ewoks made their escape , they devised a plan to destroy the creature . Remembering advice from Logray that giving a plant too much water could drown it , Wicket and Kneesaa made their way into a nearby lake . Although Morag initially believed that leading her monster into the lake would only allow her monster to become larger and stronger , she was soon proven wrong . The thorn monster began to swell considerably , expanding to an unstable size . To Morag ' s horror , the beast exploded violently , throwing Morag into the lake . The moisture released into the air upon the beast ' s destruction triggered a rain storm , which began to restore the water - deprived forest . Morag quickly fled the scene , humiliated and drenched with water , yelling that the only thing she hated more than Ewoks was water . Evil encounters . Two of Morag ' s plots against the Ewoks revolved around their beloved sunberries and their artwork , respectively . In the first , Morag infiltrated the Ewoks ' sunberry - tree forest and tried to poison the berries with a potion , thus depriving the Bright Tree Village Ewoks of a staple food and starving them . The plot involved having her pet mantigrue pour the substance over the trees . Nevertheless , Logray made an antidote , which the Ewok tribe sprayed it over the berries . Morag thus attempted to spread the potion again herself . Nevertheless , she found that Logray had included in his antidote ingredient that irritated Morag ' s sinuses and kept her from breathing . Her plot foiled , she fled . On a later occasion , Morag discovered Bright Tree Village ' s children painting pictures on a cave wall for their Youth Pictorial Exposition . She sneaked into the cave and painted over the artwork with a potion that erased the paintings , an act she found to represent utmost evil . However , Logray used his own magic to restore the works to their former state . He and the Ewoks booby trapped the area with adhesive , which trappged Morag when she returned to the scene of her plot . Logray and Wicket W . Warrick found her the next day . but she escaped their custody . The Wistie plot . Sometime later , Morag formulated another plot to destroy the Ewoks and their home . With the forests of Endor experiencing a severe drought , Morag planned to set the forest ablaze , destroying the Ewoks ' valued Soul Tree s and the Ewoks themselves . In order to do this , Morag sent her Yuzzum servants on rakazzak beasts to capture several of the local Wistie s , also known as the firefolk . Although the Yuzzum were unable to capture a Wistie , they stirred up the population enough that Morag was able to personally capture the Wistie queen , Izrina . Morag and her minions made their way back to her lair , intent on transforming the Wistie Queen into her instrument for destroying the forests . However , midway through the procedure , her Yuzzum guards brought in in the Dulok shaman Umwak , who wished to procure a bug bite cure from the Tulgah witch . Irritated by the Dulok ' s intrusion , Morag nonetheless allowed the shaman to witness her plan , transforming Queen Izrina into a literal carrier of fire , a curse that would pass from Wistie to Wistie , causing them to carry the fire into the dried - up foliage of the forest . Using Umwak to carry the newly transformed Wistie Queen , Morag made her way to the top of her mountain and released Izrina . Just as she had planned , the Wistie passed on the fire - bringing ability to her subjects . The literal firefolk created a massive forest fire that threatened to destroy the Ewoks . From her lair , Morag witnessed the destruction and worked to oppose any efforts to quench the flames . When the Ewoks banded together to bring water from a river , Morag led her Yuzzum servants in damming the river so that the Ewoks would be unable to use its water supply . However , even without the water , the Ewoks were able to employ a magic foam created by Logray that not only doused the flames but also removed the curse from the tainted Wisties . Just as it seemed that Morag ' s plan would be defeated , the Tulgah witch conjured a strong wind , which forced several of the still - infected Wisties down onto the Ewoks , destroying the catapult that they were using in conjunction with the magic foam . However , even Morag ' s best efforts could not stop the effectiveness of the magic foam , and several of the Ewoks , including Wicket , Kneesaa , Paploo , and Teebo , used their hang glider s to stop the worst of the fires . Morag was infuriated over the failure of another of her plans , and as she came to terms with her failure , she was attacked by the Wisties , who had now been cleansed of her curse . The firefolk dropped a sack of magic foam upon the Tulgah witch to repay Morag for the dark magic she had performed upon them . Covered in the sticky foam , Morag had been defeated once again . Attack of the mantigrue . A short time later , Morag decided to repeat a previous scheme by sending out her mantigrue to rob the Ewoks of their sunberry trees once again . After sending her beast out on a passing run , the mantigrue returned to Morag ' s lair with two sunberry trees , filled with fruit that was ripe for the picking . Morag knew that the trees would soon be harvested by the Ewoks , and so any attack on the plants would need to be done soon . Deciding to wait for the following morning to send her pet out on a new mission , Morag let the mantigrue sleep within the confines of her mountain . However , this delay allowed the Ewoks to coat their sunberry trees in shadowroot soap , making the plants invisible . When the mantigrue awoke and arrived at the Ewoks ' village , it was unable to locate any of the invisible sunberry trees . Foiled by the Ewoks ' efforts , the mantigrue returned to its mistress , having failed in its mission . A Phlog rampage . In her next attempt to destroy Logray and the Ewoks , Morag decided to manipulate the local Phlog s , large creatures that resided on the forest moon . After finding a Phlog family made up of Zut , Dobah , and their sons , Hoom and Nahkee , Morag had her Yuzzum servants kidnap the youngest child , Nahkee . Using the power of her staff , Morag hypnotized the child , allowing the Yuzzum and their rakazzak beasts to carry the young Phlog away in a net . Before the Phlogs had noticed the theft of their child , Morag planted several Ewok hoods and weapons near the area . When the Phlogs went searching for Nahkee , they discovered the Ewok evidence , and just as Morag had planned , they surmised that the Ewoks had stolen their young son . As the Phlogs made their way toward Bright Tree Village to enact revenge on those whom they thought were responsible , Morag headed for the Dulok Swamp to find a place to hide the kidnapped Phlog . After arriving at the Dulok village , Morag implored the Dulok King Gorneesh to watch after Nahkee . Gorneesh was hesitant to watch after such a large child , believing that babysitting was much too demeaning a task for the King of all Duloks . However , Morag insisted , and after threatening Gorneesh with the powers of her staff , the Dulok agreed to do her bidding . After passing the Phlog off on the Duloks , Morag made her way to Bright Tree Village to witness the rampage of the Phlog family . The Ewoks had prepared armaments to deal with the large creatures , but their defenses proved useless . However , just as one of the Phlogs was about to knock down one of the main support trees of the village , the Ewok children Wicket , Kneesaa , Teebo , and Latara arrived with the young Nahkee in tow . Upon seeing their child , the Phlog family immediately broke off their attack . The Duloks , who had accidentally allowed the Phlog to escape , confronted the Ewoks , intent on reclaiming their captive . The action signified to the Phlogs that the Duloks were to blame for keeping their child from them , and they attacked , driving the Duloks all the way back to their swamp . Morag was infuriated by the Dulok King ' s incompetence , and she tracked down Gorneesh and his shaman Umwak to punish them . Gorneesh attempted to explain how the Phlog child had escaped , but Morag would hear none of it , and she attacked them with her staff , driving them from the forest . Kidnap of the Ewok children . Morag ' s next plan for the Ewoks ' destruction also involved kidnapping . While out in the Endor woods , Morag spied the Ewok children Teebo , Wicket , Kneesaa , and Latara playing . Teebo , who had just recently become Logray ' s apprentice , was showing his friends all that he had learned . As one of his tricks went sour , the Ewok children decided to make their way back to their treetop village . However , Morag had created an illusion that disguised herself as a benevolent furred wizard . From inside a nearby cave , Morag sang out to the Ewoks , drawing them inside . In her transformed state , Morag claimed that she simply wanted to show them a bit of magic , much the same as the feats that Teebo had performed . However , when the Ewoks drew nearer , Morag revealed her true form , capturing them with help from her Yuzzum guards . After bringing her Ewok captives back to her fortress , Morag contacted Logray through the use of his crystal image spinner . To Logray ' s horror , Morag revealed her plot : in exchange for the Ewok children ' s safety , Logray would bring the Sunstar to her lair and return it to its previous owner . Logray , hesitant to give Morag the power that she so desperately wanted , but also concerned for his fellow Ewoks , decided to meet Morag in a final , decisive conflict . Meanwhile , back at her mountain retreat , Morag forced the Ewok children into hard labor , cleaning her fortress . The young Ewoks pleaded with Morag to release them , but she refused to listen , forcing them to work harder . Just as Morag began to believe that Logray would not appear to face her , the Shadowstone on her staff began to glow brightly , signaling the close proximity of the Sunstar . Knowing that Logray had finally come , Morag had her Yuzzum guards collect the Ewok children , bringing them to the entrance to her mountain stronghold . Although the Ewoks believed that Morag had decided to relent and allow them to leave , Morag quickly corrected them — she had only released them so that they could watch her destroy Logray . Showdown . When Logray entered the lair , he saw that the Ewok children were unharmed and commanded that Morag release them immediately . Reluctant to give up her bartering chip so easily , Morag demanded that Logray turn over the Sunstar first . Kneesaa cried out to the shaman , warning him that Morag would not honor their deal . Morag threatened the Ewok child to keep quiet , but the action only made Logray more hesitant to deal with the Tulgah witch . Morag had run out of patience , and she used her powers to cause a vine to grow out of Logray ' s staff that quickly tied up the old Ewok . Although bound by Morag ' s magic , Logray still had the Sunstar , and he used it to free himself . Furious that the Sunstar was still not in her possession , Morag ordered her Yuzzum guards and her two - headed pet to attack . Unfortunately for Morag , due to the interference of the Ewok children , Logray was able to fight off the attack , driving Morag ' s servants away . However , Morag refused to admit defeat , and she slammed her staff to the ground , causing an earthquake . Logray lost control of the Sunstar due to the strong vibrations , and it fell to the dirt in front of Morag . The Tulgah witch quickly detached the Shadowstone from her staff and reunited the two broken halves of the powerful artifact . Morag then returned the Sunstar - Shadowstone to her staff , preparing to take the fight to her old nemesis . At the same time , the tremors that Morag had created began to activate the long dormant volcano . The earthquake that Morag had produced threatened to destroy the entire mountain , and both the Ewoks and Morag ' s Yuzzum servants fled to avoid being crushed by falling debris . Morag , with the stone still in her possession , remained , and as the molten lava began to rise up into her lair , Morag was enveloped by the molten rock . The Ewoks who were able to barely escape believed that their foe was finally finished . Final battle . Equipped with the Sunstar - Shadowstone , Morag was more powerful than ever , and the lava that she had fallen into became her new form . Now with the appearance of a large molten beast with the stone sitting on her forehead , Morag erupted from her destroyed fortress ready to face Logray . The Ewok shaman attempted to ward off Morag with his staff , but her powers proved too great . A great blast of energy knocked Logray ' s staff from his hand , leaving Morag ' s old nemesis helpless . However , Logray ' s apprentice , Teebo , rushed forward to help , throwing the staff back to his master . Logray grabbed the staff and thrust it into the area before Morag , chanting several incantations after placing the object in the ground . Morag was unimpressed with Logray ' s final attempt to save himself , and she prepared to finish off the Ewok shaman . However , Logray did have a plan , and before Morag could strike , he removed his staff from the turf , producing a cold gusher of water . The liquid reacted violently with Morag ' s new lava form , and she began to harden . Morag attempted to stop this process , but the water had soon transformed her into a motionless pillar of rock . As the Ewok children rushed forward to congratulate Logray , Morag made one last effort to destroy her enemy . With one final push , Morag was able to turn her stone body at Logray . However , the gesture resulted in the witch ' s undoing ; her entire body was destroyed , collapsing into a pile of rubble . The debris covered Logray ' s body , burying him in the last vestiges of her existence . The Ewok children initially believed that their old shaman had been killed in the assault , but just as they had given up hope , Logray used his powers to lift himself out of the rubble safe from harm . Legacy . Upon Morag ' s death , a large tree grew out of the rubble of her destroyed body . Logray reclaimed the Sunstar - Shadowstone , bringing it back to his hut in Bright Tree Village . For future generations , Logray recounted the story of Morag ' s defeat as an object lesson for how the most beautiful things could arise from the death of evil . Logray congratulated the Ewok children for their help , making sure to include their role when he told the story about Morag . After Morag ' s defeat , several other individuals would accost the village in pursuit of the reformed Sunstar , including the Stranger , Odra , Jadru , and Raygar . Personality and traits . Morag was a cruel being that desired power above all else . Even to those that served her , she had nothing but disdain , never hiding her contempt for those that interrupted her plans . However , this attitude caused Morag to be somewhat overconfident , and it was this disdain for others that caused her to overlook the young Logray when he was brought to her fortress . The Tulgah witch was oblivious to the Ewok as he slowly learned how to wield her powers and then turned them against her . This attack caused her to lose control of the Sunstar - Shadowstone , and she vowed revenge . However , in her long quest for vengeance , Morag began to see Logray as her equal , and she hoped for one day when the two might meet each other in a final epic conflict . Like others of her species , Morag had an extensive knowledge of magic as well as medicine . Although other members of the Tulgah race used these talents to become great healers , Morag used her knowledge for alternative ends and the pursuit of power . As with others of her race , Morag had a troll - like appearance , including a face reminiscent of a mandrill . She had a shriveled and stooped body , and Morag was quite old , over two hundred Endor years of age at the time of her death . Although quite powerful and feared by the locals on Endor , Morag was not the most successful adversary . Although occasionally able to inflict pain upon the Ewoks , such as when her mantigrue destroyed the sunberry trees , Morag ' s plots were usually foiled . However , the Tulgah witch was incredibly persistent , cooking up new schemes for nearly two hundred local years after her defeat at the hands of Logray . As a result , Morag had a variety of creatures serving under her during her campaign against the Ewoks . While her best known servants were the mantigrue and her Yuzzum guards that protected the entrance to her lair on rakazzak beasts , several other small beasts resided in Morag ' s mountain fortress and would answer to her commands . Powers and abilities . Morag was a powerful sorceress , usually employing her staff for the majority of her feats . Morag was incredibly proficient in telekinesis and could levitate with almost no difficulty . During the attack of the Thorn Monster , Morag flew through the trees , commanding her plant beast to chase the Ewoks . During her transformation into a lava monster in her final fight with Logray , she became even more powerful , using her abilities to pull Logray ' s staff from his grip and throw it aside . Additionally , Morag was able to use her staff for a variety of other abilities . In her attempt to turn the Phlogs against Bright Tree Village , she hypnotized the baby Phlog Nahkee , keeping him from escaping her grasp . During the same event , Morag used her staff to chase her Dulok allies with energy attacks , driving them back to their swamp for their failures during that scheme . Morag would use this energy attack several other times during her career , chasing the Dulok shaman Umwak off her land , as well as threatening the Ewok children during her last battle with Logray . Morag also had the ability to create large and widespread illusions . During her scheme to revive the Kreegon , Morag conjured a massive image of her face over Bright Tree Village to taunt her enemies and allow her agents time to retrieve the Kreegon ' s crystal eye while the Ewoks were distracted by her presence . In the same fashion , Morag manipulated her appearance to deceive her opponents , creating an illusion that she was young and friendly as opposed to decrepit and sinister . Morag also projected her appearance into Logray ' s crystal image spinner , which she used to set up her final showdown with Logray by revealing through the device that she had kidnapped the Ewok children . Morag had a noted proficiency when working with plants . She could manipulate the foliage on the forest moon to work for her . During the rejuvenation of the Kreegon , Morag summoned vines from the ground to restrain Chief Chirpa , making him her prisoner . Morag would use this same power right before her death when she captured Logray in the same manner . Her grandest feat regarding manipulating plant life was her creation and transformation of a mutated thorn bush , which began to remove all the water from the forest floor . Morag eventually manipulated the plant to give it a humanoid shape so that it could chase the Ewoks across the forest moon . However , for all her skill with plants , Morag failed to realize that too much water could kill a plant , which resulted in the death of her thorn monster . Behind the scenes . Morag first appeared in the opening episode of the " " television show , " The Cries of the Trees , " written by Paul Dini . She appeared in three following episodes , serving as the main antagonist in each one . Her death in " Sunstar vs . Shadowstone " was Morag ' s last appearance in the series , but she made two further appearances in the Marvel Ewoks comic line . Her appearances in the comics , set before her death in the television show , served to illustrate further attempts that Morag had made in trying to destroy the Ewoks of Bright Tree Village . Morag was voiced by Jackie Burroughs throughout her television appearances . The character also appeared in two installments of the " MyComyc " series of comic books , which were published in 1986 in Spanish by Editorial Gepsa . The short stories incorrectly use masculine pronouns to refer to the witch . When the comic strips resurfaced in 2013 , Dark Horse Comics editor Rich Handley and Lucasfilm Ltd . were unable to determine whether they had been officially licensed or were unauthorized . Nevertheless , " Star Wars " writer Abel G . Peña translated the strips for release on the StarWars . com website . He corrected the original script to refer to Morag as a female . The " Star Wars Encyclopedia " describes Morag as having the face of a , perhaps indicating that Morag was designed with this type of monkey involved . Morag is a common Gaelic name , meaning " The Great One . " Morag ' s powers in " Star Wars : Ewoks " are usually explained as a type of magic , and the presence of the Force is not explicitly mentioned in the cartoon . However , explanations of Ewok magic in reference works , such as the Databank entry for Charal , refer to these magical powers as projections of the Force . The article " Castaways of Endor " clarified that all the ritualistic magic shown in " Star Wars : Ewoks " is , in fact , performed through the use of the Force . Since Morag uses her magic for dark purposes , described as " black magic " in the " Star Wars Encyclopedia " , this article implies that she wields the dark side of the Force . According to Leland Chee ' s definition of a Dark Jedi — " anyone who practices the dark side of the Force whether or not they were a former Jedi " — Morag falls into this category . An of Morag was planned for the , but the figure never got past the prototype phase . As such , the figure was never released commercially . In George Lucas ' s novel " Shadow Moon " , set in the " Willow " universe , there is a character named Morag . The character is a ship captain who provides transportation twice for Thorn Drumheller and his companions . This Morag character is exclusive to the " Willow " universe , and is not part of the " Star Wars " canon .