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witch in Australian fairy tales

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1897
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witch in Australian fairy tales

and laugh, and shake its fat, dimpled fists and crow too. How they had watched it when it slept, and filled its tiny brain with innocent visions pure as the setting sun! How they had caused their magic to mantle its slumber, and the little rosebud mouth to open out in smiles! How silent and still n…

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1,485
Year
1,897
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Record ID
1485
Source
Project Gutenberg
Publication
Australian fairy tales; Atha Westbury
Published
1897
Narrative type
Retellings and Adaptations
Public-text label
witch
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Australia (Australia): B
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and laugh, and shake its fat, dimpled fists and crow too. How they had watched it when it slept, and filled its tiny brain with innocent visions pure as the setting sun! How they had caused their magic to mantle its slumber, and the little rosebud mouth to open out in smiles! How silent and still now! No smile parts the pale lips. Not all the witchcraft in Fairyland, nor all the songs sung by sprite or fay to fretful babyhood, can lift but even one slender hair from those drooping eyelids which shroud the dim, blue eyes. “Baby’s dead,” said one, and “Dead, dead, dead,” repeated all the elfin circle. “Let us bear it hence unto the.

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