White Fairy Come! let us dance.
(Music starts up. Any lively dance song for children such as can be found in any school music book will be suitable here. All clasp hands and begin to circle around kettle, singing and dancing. Music breaks off and all stop singing abruptly in middle of first stanza. Children all glance towards dead Witch then towards Fairy.)
White Fairy What is it, children?
Mirth Good Fairy, we want no one to die.
White Fairy (touching Mirth with wand) Bless you, dear messenger of mine, but the witch is evil and cannot live.
Jollity Can’t you give the witch her life but keep her evil power away from her?
Children (in unison) Please good Fairy, restore the Witch’s life! Please oh! please.
White Fairy (pondering) Your pleas move me. I will restore the witch’s life. In Spirit world she can no longer live. A mortal, she must dwell upon the earth.
(Children cluster in “background” as Fairy goes toward Witch.)
White Fairy (touching Witch with wand) Insensate clay awake! Moved by the tears of children, whom thou hast terrified and wronged, I give thee life. Thou canst no longer dwell with spirits. Wake in mortal form!