“The Witch.”

“Folks said when my granny Eliza bewitched,

She must die for her horrid transgression;

Much ink from his pen the old magistrate pitched,

But he could not extort a confession.

And when in the kettle my granny was thrown

She yelled ‘Death’ and ‘Murder!’ while dying;

And when the black smoke all around us was blown,

As a raven she rose and went flying.

Little black grandmother, feathered so well,