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Updated: May 15, 2025
But he, without troubling himself in the least about the freckles, embraced his beloved as fervently as before. When, however, the kopanitschar's wife came in again and saw the ugly serving maid, she asked what had become of the wondrously beautiful lady who had lately been there.
Now, when he saw himself so hotly pursued, Janko fled straight to the kopanitschar's wife, who is his sweetheart. The woman received him with open arms, made him a great feast, and they were right merry together. Wine flowed all night, and a couple of bagpipers played the music by turns. They soon got tired of playing, but Janko never tired of dancing.
The Kopanitschar's wife also knew where Red Barbara was now to be found. In those days the more the witches were persecuted, the more they multiplied. Many lonely old women, and even younger ones who were separated from their husbands, not to mention a few young widows, got it into their heads that they were witches.
In vain he roared and cursed; the kopanitschar's iron fist and wooden fork held him down till the rest mustered up sufficient courage to hasten up and secure him. "To-morrow the whole three of them will be executed at Eperies, and we will be there to see it all."
Pirka greeted her with strangely sounding words, not one of which Michal understood, and the kopanitschar's wife answered in the same fashion. "Have you offered up a witch's prayer, and if so, for what have you prayed?" "I have prayed that the devil may take the old vihodar." "He has got him already. Janko bit him in the neck, and immediately he was a dead man."
At the same time Valentine treated his beloved as his bride indeed, but not as his affianced wife. At the first cockcrow the witches ceased to dance. Simplex they sent into the loft to sleep of his fatigue. The kopanitschar's wife set about preparing breakfast; but Pirka went into the room of the lovers to ask them what they had been dreaming about.
With that she gave the kopanitschar's wife a ducat to provide supper, and then taught her the diabolical art of tying knots in the entrails of absent foes, so that they may pine away and perish miserably.
The kopanitschar's wife now brought in the supper, and all five of them straightway sat down and made merry in honor of the festive occasion. This done, the witches began to feel frisky, and called to Simplex to bring out his trumpet into the courtyard and play them a jig.
Then Pirka took her bundle on her back and went off with Michal and Valentine to show them the way to Bártfa, while Simplex stayed behind with the kopanitschar's wife, so that in case the headsman's assistants should stop there for a drink on their way back from Eperies, he might give them an earful of lies. And that is really what he did do.
"Beelzebub be praised!" cried the kopanitschar's wife, and she frisked about for joy. "Cook us some supper, sisterkin," said Pirka to Annie. "What sort of a guest have you brought me?" asked the latter. "You know well enough without being told." Then Annie recognized Michal, and laughed with all her might. Witches always rejoice when they see an innocent soul rushing to perdition.
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