Witch Child

He carried a short bow in one hand and a quiver of arrows slung across his back. He held

Tobias is fencing it now to keep the hogs out and they are preparing beds for seeds and

They skewered the cat on a pike, they smashed the rabbit’s skull by hitting him against the wall.

‘Daughter of the Erl King and the Elfen Queen, that’s who you are.’

Eliza Nuttall; Mother Nuttall to her neighbours.

Spawn of the Devil’,

til tomorrow.’ She had a long white linen gown over her arm.
I was left standing naked before her. My hand went to my neck. I wore a small leather pouch there, made for me by my grandmother. It contained things, special things, not to be seen by anyone. The hot blood rushed to my cheeks. I feared that I was undone.
‘You are safe with me,’ she said quietly, as if she knew who I was and what I had come from. ‘Put it aside and then into the tub with you.’

n now I could hear t

That was the last I saw of her. The hangman stepped forward, hood raised to cover her face, and at the same time a cloak closed around me. I was taken down one of the steep alleys leading from the market and was stepping into a waiting carriage when I heard the crowd’s roar.