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The Old Witch
by The Brothers Grimm

There was once a little girl who was very willful and who never obeyed when her elders spoke to
her - so how could she be happy?

One day she said to her parents, "I have heard so much of the old witch that I will go and see her.
People say she is a wonderful old woman, and has many marvelous things in her house, and I am
very curious to see them."'

But her parents forbade her going, saying, "The witch is a wicked old woman, who performs many
godless deeds - and if you go near her, you are no longer a child of ours."

The girl, however, would not turn back at her parents' command, but went to the witch's house.
When she arrived there the old woman asked her:

"Why are you so pale?"

"Ah," she replied, trembling all over, "I have frightened myself so with what I have just seen."

"And what did you see?" inquired the old witch.

"I saw a black man on your steps."

"That was a collier," replied she.

"Then I saw a gray man."

"That was a sportsman," said the old woman.

"After him I saw a blood-red man."

"That was a butcher," replied the old woman.

"But, oh, I was most terrified," continued the girl, "when I peeped through your window, and saw
not you, but a creature with a fiery head."

"Then you have seen the witch in her proper dress," said the old woman. "For you I have long
waited, and now you shall give me light."

So saying the witch changed the little girl into a block of wood, and then threw it on the fire. When it
was fully alight, she sat down on the hearth and warmed herself, saying:

"How good I feel! The fire has not burned like this for a long time!"


The Red Spot  (Scary)

While Ruth slept, a spider crawled across her face. It stopped for several minutes on her left cheek,
then went on it's way.

"What is this red spot on my cheek?" she asked her mother the next morning.
"It looks like a spider bite", her mother said."It will go away, just don't scratch it."

Soon the small red spot grew into a small red boil. "Look at it now," Ruth said. "It's getting bigger."
"That sometimes happens", her mother said. "It's coming to a head."

In a few days the boil was even larger. "Look at it now", Ruth said. "It hurts and it's ugly."
"We'll have the doctor look at it", her mother said. "Maybe it's infected."

But the doctor could not see Ruth until the next day.

That night Ruth took a bath. As she soaked herself, the boil burst. Out poured a swarm of tiny
spiders from the eggs their mother had laid in her cheek!


The Guests

A young man and his wife were on a trip to visit his mother. Usually they arrived in time for supper.
They had gotten a late start, and now it was getting dark. They decided to look for a place to stay
overnight and go on in the morning.

Just off the road, they saw a small house in the woods. "Maybe they rent rooms", the wife said. So
they stopped to ask. An elderly man and woman came to the door. They didn't rent rooms, they said.
But they would be glad to have them stay overnight as their guests. They had plenty of room, and
they would enjoy the company. The old woman made coffee, brought out some cake, and the four of
them talked for awhile. Then the young couple were taken to their room. They explained that they
wanted to pay for this, but the old man said he would not accept any money.

The young couple got up early the next morning before their hosts had awakened. On a table near
the front door, they left an envelope with some money in it for the room. Then they went on to the
next town. They stopped at a restaurant and had breakfast. When they told the owner where they
had stayed, he was shocked. "That can't be", he said. "That house burned to the ground ten years
ago, the old man and woman who lived there died in the fire."

The young couple could not believe it. So they went back to the house. Only now there was no
house. All they found was a burned-out shell. They stood staring at the ruins trying to understand
what had happened.

Then the woman started screaming! In the rubble was a badly burned table, on the table was the
envelope they had left there that morning!

Late Night Ride

 Jerry was driving home late one night when he saw a young lady waiting by a bus stop. He stopped
his car and told her that he didn't think the buses were running so late at night and offered her a
ride. The fall night air was getting chilly, so he took off his jacket and gave it to her. Jerry found out
that the girl's name was Mary and she was on her way home.

After an hours drive, they arrived at her home and he dropped her off by the front door. Jerry said
goodnight and went home himself.

The next day he remembered that Mary still had his jacket.

He drove to her house and knocked on the door, an old woman answered.
John told her about the ride he had given her daughter Mary, and had come back to get the jacket
he had lent her. The old woman looked very confused.

John noticed a picture of Mary on the fireplace mantel. He pointed to it and told the old woman that
that was the girl he had given a ride to.

With her voice shaking, the old woman told Jerry that her daughter had been dead for many years
and was buried in a cemetery about an hours drive away from there.
Jerry ran to his car and drove to the cemetery....

He found his jacket, neatly folded on top of a grave...the name on the gravestone was Mary!