The Witch Wolf
"There was once an old castle that stood in the middle of a deep gloomy wood, and in the castle lived an old fairy. Now this fairy could take on any shape she pleased.
All the day long she flew about in the form of an owl, or crept about the country like a cat; but at night she always became an old woman again.
Whenever any young man came within a hundred paces of her castle, he became quite fixed on a spot, and could not move a step till she came and set him free, which she would not do till he had given her his word never to come there again.
But it was often a different matter for young ladies. Whenever any pretty maiden came within that space she was changed into a bird, and the fairy pu