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Updated: June 27, 2025
Still the hags made no other answer, than by increasing their speed in the circle, and occasionally raising the threatening expressions of their chant, into louder and more intelligible strains.
Gilly looked through a crack in the cradle and saw the Hags they were old and crooked and had long teeth that came down below their chins. "He's gone, he's gone, he's gone!" screamed the Hag of the House, when she did not see Gilly in the cradle. "He's gone," said one of the long-toothed Hags. "I told you he would go away. Why didn't you cut out his heart yesterday, or the day before?"
"The Roaring Forties" seemed a little pretentious, and preference was given to the more natural epigram, "The Hags' Hop." "We were all virtuous in the fifties, now licence has reached its prime, and we shall fall back soon into decadence." Harding, who was something of an historian, was able to illustrate this prophecy by reference to antiquity.
So prayed all the filthy hags who sat there before thee, Magdalena; but they prayed in vain." "Leave me, wretched man!" said Magdalena, who now became aware that it was the cripple who addressed her. "Hast thou not sufficiently sated thy thirst for evil, that thou shouldst come to torment me in my last moments? Go! tempt not the bitterness of my spirit in this supreme hour of penitence and prayer.
The riders drew rein before this house, and straightway an old woman of extraordinary ugliness stuck her head out of the little door. Among the Wallachians one meets with the comeliest young women and the ugliest old hags. Knock at any door, and it is sure to be opened by one of these ancient dames. "He isn't at home," called out the old woman, without waiting to be addressed.
He knew nobody except the three Hags of the Long Teeth, and he had never heard the name of mother or father. Often, when she was peeling the wands with a black-handled knife, the Hag of the House used to tell Gilly of the Goatskin the troubles that were in store for him danger from the sword and the spear and the knife, from water and fire, from the beasts of the earth and the birds of the air.
"Well, I will aid you in your search for witches, Master Potts," observed Nicholas; "for I would gladly see the country rid of these pests. But I warn you the quest will be attended with risk, and you will get few to accompany you, for all the folk hereabouts are mortally afraid of these terrible old hags."
'I am a rough, blunt yeoman, said Will. 'Why I came here is told in a word; you have been overheard at a distance in the silence of the night, and I have undertaken a watch for hags or spirits. I came here expecting an adventure, and prepared to go through with any.
When, as they unlaced her satin corset, less soft, less fresh, less white than the virgin form beneath, which lay like a statue of alabaster in its covering of lace and lawn, one of the horrible hags felt the arms and shoulders of the young girl with her large, red, horny, and chapped hands.
The Tree could be climbed, Flann knew. But on the top of the tree and along its branches were the fierce yellow cats the cats that the Hags of the Long Teeth had reared for Crom Duv, thinking that he would some time give each of them the berry that would make them young again. And at the butt of the tree there were more cats. And all about the courtyard the Hags' fierce cats paraded themselves.
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