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Overview

Siminok encounters this witch while seeking his missing companion. She flees into a tree, then complains of cold and asks to share his fire. Claiming fear of his hounds, she offers a strand of hair with which he should bind them. He burns it instead and conceals that choice by blaming the smell on a scorched dog’s tail. The narrative does not explicitly demonstrate what the strand would have done had he accepted it.

Once beside the fire she says she wants to eat him. He threatens to devour her and sets his free dogs upon her. Under attack she promises to restore Busujok together with horse and hounds. Three swallowing motions bring them all up alive. Siminok then renews the attack, and the dogs tear her apart. The text supplies the contents of her body through this disgorging scene but leaves the earlier capture unshown. No daughter, named husband, house on animal legs or identity with another tale’s Wood Witch is asserted.

Tree refugeOffers binding hairThreatens to eat rescuerDisgorges man, horse and dogsKilled by hounds
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Origins & earliest records

Roumanian Fairy Tales, collected by Mite Kremnitz, adapted and arranged by J. M. Percival (New York: Henry Holt, 1885), The Morning Star and The Evening Star, pp. 121–129.

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Records & interpretation

Complete selected English narrative through both deaths and celestial transformation. Preface assigns tale 13 to P. Ispirescu.

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    Roumanian Fairy Tales: The Morning Star and The Evening Star, pp. 121–129

    Mite Kremnitz, collector; J. M. Percival, adapter and arranger · 1885

    Preface assigns tale 13 to P. Ispirescu. Different mothers and unassigned second father retained; original Romanian not collated.

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  1. Primary historical English adaptationKremnitz/Percival 1885: The Morning Star and The Evening StarResearch access: 2026-10-05

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