bawding

Updated: June 15, 2025

"Such trifles as a little murder and witchcraft, poisoning and stealing, run in the blood even of the innocentest. Bawding was a thing in which I could never hit the mark. And what shall one say when one has to endure thanklessness and woe from one's own children?

Ludwig Tieck - The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano: Tales from the German of Tieck