After some back-and-forth in which the witch steals the farmer's pie, and the farmer chases her with a hayfork, the feud escalates when the witch concocts a brew to poison his drinking water!Stirring her mixture 99 times to the left, then 99 times to the right, she recites:
Seven toadstools in a row.
Old black feather from a crow.
Wiggle worm,
Spider spin,
Drop another lizard in.
Big fat grub,
A snail or two.
Cook them up
For witch's brew.
The farmer ends up using a Halloween jack-o-lantern and the witch's left-behind cloak to make a scarecrow.
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I scored this a few years ago when our library was selling off a massive amount of it's books (I'll pick up anything Halloween related. I thought it was a fun little read.
Cheers to your post!
I thought you'd enjoy this:
http://www.urlesque.com/2011/03/23/vintage-book-club-mailers/?a_dgi=aolshare_facebook
Scholastic and Arrow books galore! It's amazing how many of these selections *I* remember from my Scholastic days- probably a good ten years before these.
THIS looks SO familiar....I must have owned it...
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