Ms. Valenti

Ms. Valenti, appeared as the villain in The Tale of The Mystical Mirror, an episode of the children's horror-series ''Are You Afraid of the Dark? ''She was portrayed by Jayne Heitmeyer

Biography
Not only was Ms. Valenti a former beauty pagent Queen and the owner of her own Beauty Store & Boutique, She was a witch whom for possibly centuries, stayed young and beautiful.

She did this by finding a way to have her victim gaze into her mystical mirror and hypnotize and entrace them to drink a special potions. This potion transformed her victims which were beautiful young women helpless and defensless dogs. Then she would sacrifice them and possibly eat their tongues and drink their blood and gain their youth and keep her beauty.

She had three employees, Tannis, Vicki and Laurel. Not much is known about what went on between her and Tannis but as seen in the episode, Ms. Valenti recognized her as a true beauty and eventually found a way to convince her to gaze into her mystical mirror and entranced her to drink a potion. The potion quickly turned Tannis into a dog and locked her up in a cage and lied to her staff saying she quit her job and ran away from home.

Soon she took a shine to Cindy and shows her that she can be beautiful, but when Cindy sees her talking to a mirror, she gets freaked out and suspicous. Later that night she first tempted Vicki with nice new clothes and pretty pink flowered hat. Vicki gazed into her mystical mirror to see how pretty she was and was entraced. Ms. Valenti then gave her the potion and she drank it, soon Vicki screamed in pain and was changed into a dog.

When Cindy and Laurel go to her shop, Cindy realized her house doesn't have mirrors and when Cndy goes to the bathroom she takes out the compact mirror, but when she does, she notices the black and white picture of the hooded women who resmbles Ms.valenti has aged terribly. However this can only seen this when looking at it's reflection in a mirror.

Soon the secret got out to Cindy, that Ms. Valenti was really an witch living for centuries, but her reflection doesn't age because mirror reveal the truth. After she placed Laurel  in a trance and seeing and got her drink the same kind of potion. Cindy bursted in and she snaps Laurel out of her trance and the two young ladies run into the woods. But in no time at al Laurel starts to turn into a dog and Ms. Valenti captured her and placed her in a cage with next to Vicki and Tannis.

Ms. Valenti  was next about to perform a ritual getting ready to sacrifice them, saying she's found her thee beauties and with three tongues of dog that spoke as beautifully as women did, their beauty will live in her forever. Possibly she will eat their tongues or drink their blood after killing them, how it's done is not explained.

Cindy interrupts the ritual and grabs the mystical mirrorr and threatens to smash it if they're not all freed and changed back to normal. Ms. Valenti tries to put cindy under her power and convince her to look at the mirror. She keeps telling her come on there must be something you want, tell me what do you really want ?

Cindy pretends to look at the mirror saying what I want. what I want. Then she gets mad and starts to act normal and says "my friend back". Immediately After Cindy smashed the mystical mirrior, Ms. Valenti screams at the top of her lungs NO!! and her real age caught up with her. Therefore she rapidly began ageing to away, first to an elderly woman and then to a skeleton and then she turned to dust, and died and that was the end of Ms. Valenti.