2021.02.13.
The Witch
Tell me, young girlyoung girl eighteen years old
from whom did you learn
your first spell
From a young schoolmaster
from near my dad's house
He taught me the Evil
instead teaching the Good
He taught me the Evil
instead teaching the Good
And he took me every night
to attend the Sabat
Tell me, young girl
young girl eighteen years old
what did you use to make
your first spell
I used the left eye of a male raven
and the heart of a toad
And seeds of fern
collected on Johnmas eve
Seeds of the fern
that opens at night
I had collected
a handfull of them during the night festival
I have a rounded casket
at home, in may father's house
and whoever will open it
will have nausea
And whoever will open it
will have nausea
for therein are little birds
that were well fed
For therein are little birds
that were well fed
not from rabbit flesh
nor from hare flesh
Not from rabbit flesh
nor from hare flesh
but from the blood of newly-born children
before they receive baptism
I have a little stack of firewood
at home, at the end of my house
I put my rounded casket in there
to set the wood aflame
Therein are seven adders
hatching a snake (each?)
to set this world on fire
eternally
When there was a child under the church porch
in white clothes
I used to go and steal it
under my apron
I used to prevent the priest
from saying his high mass
and to consecrate the Host
if I was allowed to do so.
I have a rye field
at home, by my father's house
and I had to sow in it
eighteen bushels
And I had to sow in it
eighteen bushels
but when it was harvested
there was not even a full gallon
Besides, had I lived
one more year or two
I would have set Lower-Brittany 1
upside down
I would have set fire
to oats, rye, and buckwheat
just as a yellow 'gold nugget' 2
left in the corner of the ashes
Ah! Keep silent, young girl:
you have made enough:
seven leagues around your place
not a single grain of wheat sprouts.