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Quote from "The Will-o'-the-Wisps Are in Town" (1865)

Once I was quite a pretty little elf maiden, and I danced with the others in the moonlight, listened to the nightingale, went into the forest, and met the fairy-tale maiden there, where she was always running about. Sometimes she spent the night in a halfopened tulip or in some field flower; sometimes she would slip into the church and wrap herself in the mourning crape that hung down from the altar candles.

Source: Jean Hersholt's translation of "The Will-o'-the-Wisps Are in Town"

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Registered motifs in this quote:

1. Altar candles
2. Church
3. Elves
4. The swamp witch, The woman of the marsh

Keywords: Woman, tale

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