| Summary: | witch n witch-figure R. Now when.when I was small I.there was a witch figure [PT] in Grand Bank whom.who I again have reported on. JW. Mm-mm, something. yeah. R. She. Well I was very.you know, I was really scared of her.An' I would run.past her house I wouldn't. JW. Were you actually threatened with her,or were children threatened with her, or was she just frightening? R. Yeah. It was a.well it was a children's thing I don't know.I don't think my parents were said anything,you know, but the kids all thought she was a _witch_[PT]. JW. Mm. R.I was in kindergarten, in Grade 1 there,and everybody was afraid of her.I remember we went on a class picnic by her house and in groups we'd hide until she went in. She'd.she'd come out chopping wood, and we were scared of _the axe_,mainly! And.and we would hide until she went back in and then we'd run past her house; this kind of thing. But it was.it was just the children.My brother,see,was older than I was; he was about ten. Now he remembered the woman, [PT] but he. he didn't remember any kind of _witch_ [PT] idea with her, but he knew that she muttered to herslef and. JW. She's unusal in these ways? R. Yeah. She was just a.an old woman [PT] an' she's alone a lot. JW.Did kids tease her, too? Wa(s).was this a sort o' two-way thing? Would they tease her and she'd react to that sometimes? R. Yeah, I thnik so. I think.yeah. Yes 1527 [check] J. WIDDOSON Used I Used I 1 Not used
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