Subject:  Re: The Witch On The Colt's Neck |
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Date Posted: 19:18:53 02/17/02 Sun
In reply to:
hal
's message, "The Witch On The Colt's Neck" on 00:14:34 02/17/02 Sun
>This story was told by an old doctor who used to live
>a hermit's life in a small New England village. It
>happened when he was a young boy, but he told it and
>retold it exactly the same way until his death. To him
>it was frighteningly true.
>
>When the doctor was a young man of fifteen, his father
>had a bay colt which he permitted the youngster to
>ride. One evening the boy left his home and started
>riding to another town a few miles away. On the way he
>had to pass a cottage where a woman by the name of
>Dolly lived. She was rumored to have unusual powers,
>skill in the black arts and the ability to turn
>herself into almost anything she wished. She was, it
>was whispered, a genuine witch of the inner
>circle--certainly a person to be avoided by young boys
>out at night alone.
>
>As the lad approached Dolly's cottage, he kept to the
>middle of the road and nervously urged the colt to a
>faster trot. But his precautions were in vain.
>
>As the colt and rider came abreast of the cottage, a
>"coal" black cat suddenly leaped out of the darkness
>and landed on the colt's neck. The frightened horse
>stopped short, almost throwing the boy over his head.
>The boy tried desperately to get rid of the cat and
>urged his mount on, beating him with his whip, but the
>cat held on and the colt refused to move with the
>black cat hissing upon his neck.
>
>The boy was afraid to leave his horse and run, and in
>panic he dismounted and began to beat the cat with the
>whip, holding the colt by the bridle rein as he reared
>and plunged, trying to shake off the cat.
>
>At last the boy managed to dislodge the cat and he
>hurriedly rode home. the poor colt was bruised and
>clawed by the cat, and apparently exhausted by his
>ordeal. So injured and frightened was the colt, that
>the boy was afraid the animal would die before
>morning. He turned him loose in the barn instead of
>putting him in the stall, and went to bed trembling
>and fearful that the colt wouldn't last the night.
>
>At the first crack of dawn, the boy arose and hurried
>to the barn to inspect the battered and clawed animal.
>To his amazement, the young horse was in perfect
>condition. He showed no signs of exhaustion, and
>nowhere on his body could the boy find a trace of
>bruises from the whip, a claw mark, or a single
>reminder of the frantic events of the previous night.
>
>However, the story had and even stranger ending. A
>neighbor soon stopped by to report that Dolly had just
>been found almost dead, her body bruised and beaten as
>though by a whip. And under two of her fingernails
>were some short bay hairs, such as you'd find,
>perhaps, on the neck of a young colt ridden by a
>frightened boy alone in the night.
Very interesting story. I have heard stories like that before and that is one of the best. I do want to point out the obvious fact that no one no matter what may shape change without plastic surgery. So, no witches cannot turn into wolves, black cats, horses, ravens, coyotes, bears, foxes, eagles, or any other type of animal or being.
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