title: Words of the Witches
author: Various
description: Yvonne Jocks writes historical romance novels as well as her academic work like editing the reprint anthology, <b>A Witch's Brew</b>. She is a member of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans.
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  _To Dun Dâre they came at dead of night_
  
  
  _For to seek the witcher maid_
  
  
  _They ringed the hamlet from all sides_
  
  
  _And sealed it with a barricade_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Seize her they would in perfidy_
  
  
  _But their plans were all in vain_
  
  
  _Ere the sun arose on the frozen road_
  
  
  _Three dozen brigands lay slain_
  
  
  
  
  
  A beggar’s song about the frightful massacre which took place in Dun Dâre on
  Samhain Eve
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  _‘I can give you everything you desire,’ said the fortune-teller. ‘Riches,
  power and influence, fame and a long and happy life. Choose.’_
  
  
  _‘I wish for neither riches nor fame, neither power nor influence,’ rejoined
  the witcher girl. ‘I wish for a horse, as black and swift as a nightly gale. I
  wish for a sword, as bright and keen as a moonbeam. I wish to overstride the
  world on my black horse through the black night. I wish to smite 