Malevolent Actions. Without a doubt, stealing milk from cows occupies the first place. For this purpose, the witch collects dew from field boundaries and pastures by dragging a linen cloth, apron, or shirt across the grass, then wrings out the fabric to feed her own cow, or simply hangs the item used to collect the dew inside her house, and milk flows from it.

Among other, rarer ways of stealing "abundance" (that is, prosperity or profit), the witch might steal fat from pigs, causing pigs in neighboring yards to waste away while their fat is mysteriously transferred to the witch's pigs. She might also twist knots in rye or flax to steal the harvest or otherwise harm the owners of the field, or pluck feathers from chickens to steal their egg-laying capacity..

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