I saw three witches
Asleep in a valley,
Their heads in a row, like stones in a flood.
Till the moon, creeping upward,
Looked white through the valley,
And turned them to bushes in bright scarlet bud.
(From Walter de La Mare ‘I Saw Three Witches’)
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V0025829 Three witches or Fates spinning, with bodies of babies tied
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
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Three witches or Fates spinning, with bodies of babies tied up behind them. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
1796 By: Francisco Goya y LucientesPublished: [1796/1798]
Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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And Walter de la Mare (whose poem is quoted here) was much admired by the fabulous Angel Carter, of whom we blog a lot. I have a post on her poetry to add soon.
I must dig out my childhood book of poetry. There are definitely some witchcraft poems in there and I feel like they must have had an effect on my childhood psyche.