Do Witches Eat Children Who Do Not Sleep Early?
One of the things that my mother used to do to scare me into sleeping early when I was a child was the threat of being kidnapped by witches at midnight. She used to say, “If you’re not asleep by midnight, witches flying by the window checking on stubborn children will snatch you from your bed. They will boil you in their cauldron and make dinner out of you!” That speech used to scare me into shutting my eyes tight and compelling me to imitate a stone statue as I lied on my bed with my pillow nervously pressed on top of my head. Not only that, I was so bothered about my mother’s warning that I often found myself waking up in the middle of the night thinking some eerie voice was calling my name only to find out that it was just my grandmother, snoring at the next bed. And neither did it help any that my parents used to turn off all the lights but one tiny bulb when they tucked us into bed. Talk about setting the mood for a witch intent on casting a witchcraft spell on unsuspecting childr
