Reading Notes, Czech Tales, Part B
Important things to remember:
- Supernatural Stories
- Witches at the Cross
- The witches lived lively in other places, but they liked climbing up and down the cross by the Road to Mala Cerma
- Joe Hilma heard this and took his horse see
- He took chalk and made a circle around himself, then he saw the witches coming
- He removed himself from the circle and they began to come after him
- They chased him on his horse for a long way
- They finally could not catch him, so one of the witches through a burning broom at him and it burned the door next to him
- He had seen enough of the witches
- The Witch and the Horseshoes
- There was a farmer's wife, and she was a witch
- There was a feast every Eve, and when they burned the brooms the witch had to go
- She anointed herself with ointment and flew
- A farmhand saw this, and took the ointment after her and flew too
- She turned herself into a white horse to allude him, but he saw her trick
- He mounted the horse and took it to the smith, and told the smith to shoe the horse
- The witch woke up with horseshoes on her hands and feet, and was like that to this day
White Horse, via source
Czech Tales, Part B via http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/07/czech-three-supernatural-stories.html
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