The Witch-Bride (Rõugutaja's Daughter)
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William Forsell Kirby
The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country
John C. Nimmo, London
1895
Estonia
The Witch-Bride (Rõugutaja’s Daughter): witchcraft, uncanny marriage, deception, danger, feminine power, transformation, fear, supernatural bride, doom, folklore
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The Witch-Bride (Rõugutaja's Daughter)
Old Rõugutaja lived with his wife and daughter in a wood. The daughter had a beautiful face, but it was reported that her skin was of bark, and she could find no suitors. At last the mother contrived to inveigle a youth into marrying her daughter by means of a love-philtre, but on the first night he ran away, and shortly afterwards married another bride. On the birth of a child, the witch-mother transforms the young mother into a wolf, and substitutes her own daughter. The nurse is ordered to take the crying child for a walk; she meets the wolf; the deceit is discovered, and the husband inveigles the witch-mother and daughter into the bathhouse, and burns it down.
Folktales, Fairytales, myths, legends, stories, fantasy