Witches on the Bald mountain
There was at the muzhik a wife-witch. Only there will come deaf midnight, he will wake up, and the wife near it and is not present, he will look round around, the hut on a hook is locked, on a latch, and it is not present. He also thinks to itself(himself): “Give ive I will track down”.
Time sleeping has pretended to be and has waited half-nights. The wife has risen, has lighted , has got from a shelf with any medicine, took , has poured in there from a vial of that medicine, filled soot, has stirred, has put sulfurs and , has dumped from itself a shirt, has put on bed, has covered it , and itself has spread to itself with a bast with armpits, and has taken off through a furnace mouth for a pipe.
The muzhik has risen, has smeared also to itself with armpits, itself too has taken off after it. It flies, and it behind it. They have flown by already all villages and cities, began to fly up to Kiev, just to the Bald mountain. The muzhik, - and there church, near church a cemetery looks, and on a cemetery of witches with and not to consider, and everyone with a candle, and candles and flare.
The witch has looked back, sees - behind it the husband flies, she to it and speaks:
- That do you fly? You see, how many here witches as will see you, and to die to you will not give - and will break off you in shreds.
It has then given it a white horse and speaks:
- On you of this horse, yes skip more soon home!
- It has sat down on a horse and at home has come to be. Has put it at a day nursery, and itself has entered into a hut and has laid down to sleep. Wakes up in the morning, lo and behold - and the wife near it lays. It has gone then a horse to visit. Has come, and on that place where a horse adhered, the big willow with the peeled bark is thrust near hay. Has entered into a hut and tells to the wife, that instead of costs only one .
- Take, - the wife speaks, - this and hide it in a shed under a canopy, and that as will be seen by witches, there will be to you a grief, and rise yes throw out it through a threshold then will be nothing at night.
It has laid down the next night to sleep, and at midnight has woken up and has gone to a shed. And only has thrown out a willow for a threshold, and from it at once the horse has become and as will ring out with hoofs as will ring out along the street and who knows it where it and has disappeared.