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Almqvist, Carl Jonas Love: The witch, in the reign of king Karl (Häxan i konung Karls tid in English)

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Häxan i konung Karls tid (Swedish)

Här uppå berget ligga gummans svarta knotor:
hon, som i våras här brann uppå bål.
Nu skall du få höra sagan om röda elden:
höra huru gumman i bålet satts, att brinna.
Gumman, hon tog vita stickor av furu.
Men sina stickor satte hon i en mur.
Sakta hon steg till muren och ur stickorna
darrhänt mjölkade hon åt barnena små.
Men utur rika prästens ko var den söta mjölken. -
Barnena fingo stå vid modrens bål.



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The witch, in the reign of king Karl (English)

Here, upon the mountain, the blackened bones of the hag lie:
she, who was burned at the stake this spring.
Now you'll be told the tale about the red fire:
how the old woman was put at the stake, to burn.
She had white splinters of pine-wood.
But those splinters, she stuck in a wall.
She slowly approached the wall,
and out of the splinters, she milked, with shaky hands, for her children.
But it was out of the rich parson's cow that the sweet milk was coming.
The children had to stand by their mother's pyre.



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