Aye, and be sure that as it is with him, so shall it be with every one of you who dares to defy her and to practise sorcery and murder.

Lift up that dead dog who was your chief." Some of them crept forward and did his bidding.
"Now, cast him into the bed which he had made ready for his victims." Staggering forward to the edge of the flaming pit, they obeyed, and the great body fell with a crash amongst the burning boughs and vanished there.
"Listen, you people," said the priest, "and learn that this man deserved his dreadful doom.

Know you why he purposed to kill that woman whom the strangers saved?
Because his familiar marked her as a witch, you think.
I tell you it was not so.

It was because she being fair, he would have taken her from her husband, as he had taken many another, and she refused him.

But the Eye saw, the Voice spoke, and the Messenger did judgment.