"Spaewife" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said, "that may not be; my magic reaches not so far. But perhaps my teacher, the spaewife of Ostree, may know better." And away she hurries to the cave of Ostree, and after a while comes out as white as white can be and muttering over some burning herbs she brought out of the cave. Suddenly Coo-my-dove changed into a goshawk and around him flew twenty-four grey herons ...
— English Fairy Tales • Joseph Jacobs (coll. & ed.) |
