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The Wife of Usher’s Well
British ballad
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use of supernatural
- In ballad: The supernatural
“The Wife of Usher’s Well” laments the death of her children so inconsolably that they return to her from the dead as revenants; “Willie’s Lady” cannot be delivered of her child because of her wicked mother-in-law’s spells, an enchantment broken by a beneficent household spirit;…
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