The Troll-Witch

Here’s the story of a witch, good instead of bad. No matter that she’s ugly as a troll. She loves children and their innocence. Protecting children, therefore, is her goal. Unable to bear children, the mother of the Troll-witch visited a witch who gave to her two flowers: the second one to eat was prohibited. First the mother ate the pretty flower and a daughter beautiful she had. The mother, hoping for a son, ate the second flower; that was bad! The Witch-troll came about because her mother did not harken to the witch. Therefore, a witch herself the mother bore, but her troll-like daughter was in kindness rich! She loved and lost her pretty sister when the trolls did steal her, and she fought. She killed them all with a wooden spoon, but getting back her sister she did not. In ‘63, Hellboy came to her for help when children gruesomely were killed, the Troll-witch gave to him the wooden spoon. The trolls turned into stone; no blood was spilled I really like the Troll-witch, for infertile Norway mothers need not mourn. She gives them each a lovely flower, so children beautiful to them can be born. April 11,2023 For Robert James Liguori's 'The Women of Hellboy' Poetry Contest