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Updated: June 27, 2025
Yet for all his learning and wisdom it never once occurred to him to visit the solitary house which stood without the city walls. Consists of a very few words which are, however, of all the more consequence. When Barbara Pirka visited the young woman next morning, she was greatly astonished to find her quite dressed.
Eh! how beautiful we shall look!" "Tempt me not, Satan!" "The cards have said it and Pirka will do it. The pretty lady may like or lump it, that is her lookout. In any case she will pay the price for it." Michal believed and disbelieved at the same time.
Wherein the knavish practices of the evil witch are only insinuated, but not yet fully divulged. First of all, Barbara Pirka brought on a platter a specific whereby the blue marks caused by blows can be made to vanish in no time.
"Ha! ha! ha!" laughed Barbara Pirka, "there are very many more men in this world, my jewel, than there are angels in heaven. It is not everyone that has a guardian angel to look after him, but there isn't a man in this world who hasn't seven devils all to himself. I, too, was carried off from my father's house by my husband.
"My hand has power," explained Pirka; "I am a seventh child and a witch to boot." An ill-bred person would have burst out laughing; but Michal looked at Pirka with an astonishment which had more of reverence in it than of fear. She had never seen a witch before. It pleased Pirka to see how Michal folded her hands together as if in prayer. "Yes. Now I'm a witch and can make and mar as I please.
She thought it was an amulet against witchcraft; but Michal told her that it was only a talisman against the plague, nothing more. Then Pirka laughed. "You don't need that here. The plague never penetrates into this house. At the time of the great Egyptian sickness the headsmen were the gravediggers. Not one of them died." "How was that?" "Why, don't you know? They've made a compact with Death."
"Eh, what great supper are we getting ready yonder!" cried Pirka, catching sight of the army of pots on the hearth. Then she looked into them all, one after the other. "Water, water, nothing but boiling water. Well, well! let us put something into one of them that we may have a little good broth."
There is no shelter anywhere, and during the night the witches will do us a mischief." "There are no such things as witches," remarked Henry dryly. "But I say there are. I'm sure of it. Barbara Pirka is certainly a witch. They assemble here at midnight." "Silence!" cried Henry sternly, and with that he seized the reins of the horses and began to lead them away from the road.
This dove-cot is felicity. This very day she will meet him." "Go along with you, Pirka! It is all nonsense." "Well, well, my little lady, we shall see. The cards never lie. This very night she will see him." "He is far away; who knows how far?" sighed Michal.
"I'll go out, my pretty lambkin, and listen at the door to hear what he is saying to the old master." So Pirka went through the dining-room and stopped to listen at the iron door and find out what was going on in the tower; and Michal, meanwhile, sang that evening hymn which had reached the ears of the headsman and his son.
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