They come in from the kingdoms to plead with her, sell them enchanted goose-eggs, cow's milk, bouquets, golden apples with magic seeds that can bewitch a lover's heart or curdle a rival's. Sometimes they even court her, for anything powerful attracts attraction. She smiles until they think better of it, and leave her in her garden, heady and wild. The most beautiful flowers are also poisonous. The maiden who defeats the witch and the witch who devours the maiden are one and the same woman.

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