Why did she go about at night?
Why did she appear only now and then, and on such occasions?
One went on to tell how one night when his grandfather had been having a jolly time of it with his friends in the market town, she had served him so upon his way home that the poor man never drank a drop of anything stronger than water after it to the day of his death.
She dragged him into a bog, and tumbled him up and down in it till he was nearly dead.
'I suppose that was her way of teaching him what a good thing water was,' said Peter; but the man, who liked strong drink, did not see the joke.
'They do say,' said another, 'that she has lived in the old house over there ever since the little princess left it.

They say too that the housekeeper knows all about it, and is hand and glove with the old witch.

I don't doubt they have many a nice airing together on broomsticks.

But I don't doubt either it's all nonsense, and there's no such person at all.' 'When our cow died,' said another, 'she was seen going round and round the cowhouse the same night.

To be sure she left a fine calf behind her--I mean the cow did, not the witch.