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The Horned Women
- Someone comes to the door, demanding it be open
- the person is Witch of one Horn
- Both the women are carding wool
- What does this mean? Look it up later
- Horned women talks of other women, and then they show up
- Next women has two horns, also starts to spin wool
- This goes on 12 times total, each adding one horn
- None talk to the actual mistress of the house, just like.... taking up space in her home. Who does that? Just goes into someone's place and starts a wool spinning club?
- Mistress is paralyzed with a spell cast by the horned women
- They are using her as a servant it seems. They speak Irish.
- Some voice helped her repair her jug.
- "Return, and when thou comest to the north angle of the house, cry aloud three times and say, 'The mountain of the Fenian women and the sky over it is all on fire.'"
- This call hurt the horned women
- Voice helps the woman enchant her house so the horned women can't come back
- Had to do a series of things to restore the home.
Bibliography
The Horned Women from Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
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