Extra Credit Reading Week 13: More English Fairy Tales, The Old Witch

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The Old Witch, By Joseph Jacobs.

This story is about two sisters from a poor family who encounter a witch and her wealth. One sister is kind and helpful to strangers. These strangers later help her escape and she has a happy ending. The other sister does not help anyone and thus they do not help her escape. The moral of the story is that sometimes doing good things pays off. 
One thing about this story that I found interesting is the scene where the witch is trapped in the oven. This seems to be a recurring theme in witch stories, and I wonder where it originated from. I tried searching for this trope on TvTropes, but I did not find an answer. I wonder if the trope originated in one story and thus became a trope, or if it just appears in different stories because they were all at one point the same story. 
A question I had about the story is why does the girl marry a rich man if she already has bags of money? Did she need more money? Was it just a coincidence? Was it because her bags of money elevated her to higher society? The world may never know.. 



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