HALLOWEEN (The Old Witch)
There was once a little girl who was very willful and who never obeyed when her elders spoke to her - so how could she be happy?
One day she said to her parents, "I have heard so much of the old witch that I will go and see her. People say she is a wonderful old woman, and has many marvelous things in her house, and I am very curious to see them."'
But her parents forbade her going, saying, "The witch is a wicked old woman, who performs many godless deeds - and if you go near her, you are no longer a child of ours."
The girl, however, would not turn back at her parents' command, but went to the witch's house. When she arrived there the old woman asked her:
"Why are you so pale?"
"Ah," she replied, trembling all over, "I have frightened myself so with what I have just seen."
"And what did you see?" inquired the old witch.
"I saw a black man on your steps."
"That was a collier," replied she.
"Then I saw a gray man."
"That was a sportsman," said the old woman.
"After him I saw a blood-red man."
"That was a butcher," replied the old woman.
"But, oh, I was most terrified," continued the girl, "when I peeped through your window, and saw not you, but a creature with a fiery head."
Then you saw the witch in her proper dress ,said the old woman For you I have long waited and ...
1Read the story and find words that mean the following
A child who does not behave well naughty
Prohibited forbade
Evil,veri bad ´wicked
With a very white face because of fear or illnes pale
Scared frightened
A man who works in a coal mine collier
A man who sells meat butcher
Spy peeped
Finaly of the Story
"For you i waited for long, and now...
I know you really will be my sucesor, because you be able to interpret this vision. - I will die soon, and my powers will be transfer to you and you will be marvellous"- said the old wich-.
The girl surprised said: "Now i understand the reason for my courage in sprite of fear.
In this moment she was investing of powers and the old wich died.
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