Reading Notes: Week 13, Part A (The Dead Mother)
This story was actually super creepy, but I also really enjoyed it! Recap below:
There was a man and a wife who were well known and well liked in their village. They lived happy, long and peaceful lives. All of their neighbors loved them and admired them – just the sight of them brought the people in their village joy. One day, the husband's mistress bore a son. Directly after the son was born, the mistress died. The people mourned and wept, in complete despair about the baby. How would the baby be nourished? How will it be raised? The man did the thing he thought was most logical – he hired an old woman to take care of his son. The thing about the baby was, all day long it wouldn't eat, it did nothing but cry and there was nothing anyone could do to stop him. But, during most of the night, it was hard to believe there was even a baby in the house because it would sleep through the night. The old woman was puzzled by this and decided one night to stay up and see what was going on. Right at midnight, she heard someone quietly open the door and go upstairs to the cradle. The baby became calm and quiet as if it was getting breast fed by someone. This same thing happened for multiple nights. The old woman began to get worried, so she told the father. Together they decided to stay up one night to see what was going on. That night, they decided to hide beside the cradle, and at midnight, the cottage door opened. The same thing happened as always – someone stepped beside the cradle and the baby became still. It was at that moment that one of them brought up the light to see the dead mother in the exact same clothes that she was buried in, kneeling beside the cradle to let her baby breast feed. When the light shined on her, she quietly stood up and left the cottage, not saying a word to anyone. The people stood there frozen by terror, just to realize that the baby was now dead.
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