Friday, May 3, 2019

Extra Reading Notes: Three Supernatural Stories

-Witches at the Cross
-Joe heard of old women who climb up and down crosses so he rode his horse to go see
-he made a circle with blessed chalk
-when he stepped outside the circle the witches chased him to his house
-they couldnt go any further but one threw a burning broom at him

Burning Broom. Source: Bo Bartlett

-The With and the Horseshoes
-there was a farmers wife who was a witch
-she grew restless after a holiday so she flew up a chimney
-the farmer seeing this from afar, did the same thing after her
-to hide she became a horse
-he mounted the horse and took it to the smith to put horseshoes on it
-the next day, the women had on 4 horseshoes

-The Haunted Mill
a rope dancer and some monkeys went to a haunted mill
-a man came into the mill with fish which the monkeys tried to steal
-the man slapped the monkey away
-the rope dancer had a bear which ran over to get the fish
-the man slapped it away
-the bear didnt like that and gave the man a beating and drove him out


"Three Supernatural Stories" from The Key of Gold by Josef Baudis (1922).

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