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Date Posted: 09:47:41 11/25/04 Thu
In reply to:
Raven Kindshadow
's message, "Re: The Witch On The Colt's Neck" on 19:18:53 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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