Emily Culpepper

Emily Culpepper is the main character of the children's book "The Friends of Emily Culpepper" and the interactive computer game of the same name. She lives in the last cottage in a village in a quiet green valley. She is nice, but what counts her as a villain is that just so she can talk to her friends, the milkman, the postman and the plumber anytime she wants, she gives them some kind of special tea to shrink them and keeps them in a jam jar, a coffee jar (on the windowsill) and a pickle jar (on the mantlepiece), respectively. She does, however, allow them to breathe by poking holes in the lids. Daily, she only lets her friends out to eat their lunch on the kitchen table and play into an old doll's house, but no matter what else, she keeps them in their jars

One day, a policeman arrived to tell Emily she cannot keep her friends because A: their families want them to come home again, and B: the village cannot run without a milkman to deliver the milk, a postman to deliver the mail, and a plumber to fix their pipes. He tells her that it just isn't right to keep people in jars. She does let her friends go, but she gives the policeman some of her tea and keeps him in a jar, too. Like she did with her three friends, she only lets the policeman out onto the kitchen table to eat his lunch, but anytime else, she keeps him into his jar (though sometimes, like with them, she has a hard time catching him).