Diary Entry: Reverend Frances Kilvert, April 30, 1870
This evening being May Eve I ought to have put some birch and witten (mountain ash) over the door to keep out the ‘old witch’. But I was too lazy to go out and get it. Let us hope the old witch will not come in during the night. The young witches are welcome.
Reverend Frances Kilvert, April 30, 1870
Found in The Assassin’s Cloak: An Anthology of the World’s Greatest Diarists, edited by Irene Taylor and Alan Taylor.
