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A picturesque husband and wife lived happily
together
o
Everyone envied them
·
The wife had a son, but she died soon after his
birth
·
The husband wept and worried about how he was
going to care for the baby without his mother
·
He did his best and hired an old woman to take
care of him
·
During the day, however, the baby would only cry
and not eat anything
·
At night, the baby would sleep
·
The old woman wondered what was going on, and
she decided to stay up in the night to find out what was occurring
·
At midnight, the old woman heard someone open the
door and go to the baby’s bed
o
The baby became really quiet
·
The same thing kept repeating, and she told the
husband about it
·
The husband called his kinsfolk, and they had a
counsel
·
They decided to stay up to catch the person that
was feeding the baby
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At night they all laid down on the floor
·
At midnight, the door opened, and then they all
stood up and brought out a light
·
They saw that it was the dead mother feeding the
baby from her dead breast
·
As soon as the light hit her, she stood up and
looked sadly at her baby, and then she left the room without a sound
·
Everyone that had seen her was terror-struck and
they didn’t move for a time
·
When they did move, they found that the baby was
dead.
Bibliography: This story can be found here. Story source: Russian Fairy Tales by W. R. S. Ralston (1887).
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