Basically, an old pickerin' witch is an old woman who could aptly be called a haint because she is always making phone calls--usually to government agencies--to complain about people, neighbors, this, that, and the other. Sometimes at first, she will pretend to be nice to obtain secrets from people only to plot to use them for future complaints. She does this because it makes her feel that she is important or has power when she really doesn't. People usually get wise to her and quit communicating with her or dealing with her at all.

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods