Serafina Pekkala is a witch queen in the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman. She rules over certain clans in the district of Lake Enara, which is an alternate name Pullman created for Lake Inari of northern Finland. Serafina appears throughout the fantasy trilogy and is closely associated with the journey of Lyra Belacqua and her companions. Serafina Pekkala's dæmon is Kaisa, a large grey goose who is capable of being separated from Pekkala by long distances, as is normal with the dæmons of witches. She assists Lyra in her journey to find out about Dust. This article is part of the Witchcraft series. ... The trilogy (non-North American versions), in order of succession from left to right. ... Philip Pullman CBE (born October 19, 1946) is an English writer. ... Lake Inari (Finnish: Inarijärvi, Northern Sami: Anárjávri, Inari Sami: Aanaarjävri, Swedish: Enare träsk) is the third largest lake in Finland, and the sixth largest lake in Europe. ... Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ... A trilogy is a set of three works of art, usually literature or film, that are connected and can generally be seen as a single work as well as three individual ones. ... Lyra Belacqua is the heroine of Philip Pullmans His Dark Materials trilogy. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Genera see text Goose (plural geese) is the general English name for a considerable number of birds, belonging to the familyAnatidae. ... After just three years of use dust has blocked this laptop heat sink, making the computer unusable Dust is a general name for minute solid particles with diameters less than 500 micrometers (otherwise, see sand or granulates) and, more generally, for finely divided matter. ...

She once was in love with, and had a child with the Gyptian Farder Coram who saved her life as she was attacked by a large red bird, possibly another witch's dæmon as Farder Coram said. For witches to fall in love with men appears not uncommon. There are men within the witch society who serve the witches, or who can be taken for lovers or husbands. Witches are said to be capable of appreciating men for their beauty, intelligence and bravery, but due to the witches long life-span, the men appear to grow old and die almost at once. This is said to cause the witches great emotional pain. When witches give birth, if the child is female it is a witch, human if it is a male. This article is about the Jamaican reggae singer. ... Farder Coram is a very old, wise Gyptian in the trilogy His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman. ... Farder Coram is a very old, wise Gyptian in the trilogy His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman. ...

According to Serafina, witches live for many hundreds of years. Serafina claims to be three hundred or more, and states that her clans oldest witch mother is nearly a thousand. Witches own nothing, and so have no means of exchange save mutual aid. They have no notions of honor, so insults mean nothing to them. Temperature extremes appear not to harm witches and although they feel the cold, wrapping up against it would prevent them from experiencing other things that the humans of the text may not feel, such as "the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the Aurora". Witches fly on branches of Cloud-Pine, and equate flying to living, as Serafina states "A witch would no sooner give up flying than give up breathing. To fly is to be perfectly ourselves." Witches see themselves as subject to fate, yet they feel they must act if they are not, or "die of despair". They believe that when they die Yambe-Akka, the goddess of the dead, comes kindly to collect them.

Her name apparently originated from Pullman's browsing of a Finnish telephone directory.

In the forthcoming movie adaptation of Northern Lights, the first book in the trilogy, entitled The Golden Compass (which was the American title of the book), the part is to be played by Eva Green. Northern Lights is a common name for the polar aurorae in the northern hemisphere. ... Northern Lights (published in the US as The Golden Compass) is the first novel in the His Dark Materials series, written by British novelist Philip Pullman, and published in 1995. ... Éva Gaëlle Green (born July 5, 1980) is a French born actress. ...