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3catwoman3

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3. I used to have a very old book that had belonged...

Reply to Behind the Aegis (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 19, 2022, 04:14 PM

Sep 2022

...to one of my grandmothers, IIRC. 2 of the stories that have left unpleasant images in my memory (I'm now 71) all these years later involved creepy things happening to little girls.

One story was about a little girl who had to cut off one of her pinky fingers to use the bones to make a key to unlock the door of a room in which her brothers were imprisoned.

The other involved a little girl being tied up and being lowered into a pit of snakes and vipers. I don't remember why this action was taken.

I just googled and the stories are named The 7 Ravens and The Girl Who Trod On The Loaf.

I threw the book away several years ago - decided I didn't care that it was a family heirloom.

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