Week 15 Reading Notes, Part A : The Witch Girl

 The Girl Witch

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  • One evening, a Cossack rode to a village and asked to stay
  • He was offered a place to stay but if he didn't fear death
  • When he went into the cottage, he saw women and children crying and praying
  • After inquiring, he was told that at night death looks into a cottage and the next morning people are put in coffins
  • When the people fell asleep. At midnight a window opened and a witch appeared
  • She reached her arm in with her sprinkler and the Cossack cut off her arm
  • She howled and left
  • The Cossack cleaned up the blood and placed the witches arm under his coat
  • The next morning when the master's of the home awoke, they saw everyone was still alive
  • The Cossack explained that he would show them death
  • He gathered the villagers to look for the witch
  • When they got to the Ponomar's cottage, he explained that one of his daughters was ill
  • He asked to see her, and it was a girl missing an arm
  • The Cossack told the story and showed the arm
  • The girl was drowned

Bibliography: The Witch Girl by, W.R.S. Ralston. Link to story, mythfolklore

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