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Meanwhile the peasants might collect ten or twelve clumps of wood upon the Koppenberg, and so would they frighten all women from practising this devil's magic. Would they not burn Trina Bergen likewise the old hag who had the witch in her cellar? It would be a right pleasant spectacle to the whole town. This, however, the peasants did not wish.
Whereupon he consented to burn her; only in addition they must give him a free journey to Massow on the morrow. Summa. When the third morning dawned, all the village came together to accompany the witch up the Koppenberg: the schoolmaster, with all his school going before, singing, "Now pray we to the Holy Ghost;" then came Master Peter with the witch, he bearing a pan of lighted coal in his hand.
But, lo! when they reached the pile on the Koppenberg, behold it was wet wood which the stupid peasants had gathered. Now the hangman fell into a great rage. Who the devil could burn a witch with wet wood? She must have bewitched it. This was as bad as the hen business.
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