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Willie has married, but his mother, a rank witch, hates his bride and has {{curse}}d her to die in childbirth. He tries to bribe her, and she refuses. At the advice of Belly Blind, a household sprite, he tricks her into thinking that the baby has been born. She falls in to a rage and demands to know who undid all the things she did to prevent it. Willie undoes them all, and the baby is born.
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Willie has married, but his mother, a rank witch, hates his bride and has {{curse}}d her to die in childbirth. He tries to bribe her, and she refuses. At the advice of Belly Blind, a household sprite, he tricks her into thinking that the baby has been born. She falls in to into a rage and demands to know who undid all the things she did to prevent it. Willie undoes them all, and the baby is born.
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'''''Willie's Lady''''' is Literature/{{Child Ballad|s}} #6.
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* {{Curse}}
* DeathByChildbirth: What Willie's mother hopes her daughter-in-law will succumb to.
* EvilMatriarch: Willie's mother enchants her hated daughter-in-law.
* MagicAIsMagicA
* OldRetainer: Belly Blind
* ParentalMarriageVeto: Being applied retroactively
* WickedWitch
* DeathByChildbirth: What Willie's mother hopes her daughter-in-law will succumb to.
* EvilMatriarch: Willie's mother enchants her hated daughter-in-law.
* MagicAIsMagicA
* OldRetainer: Belly Blind
* ParentalMarriageVeto: Being applied retroactively
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{{Curse}}: Willie's mother cursed his wife to die in childbirth.
* DeathByChildbirth:What The intended result of Willie's mother hopes mothers {{Curse}} of her daughter-in-law will succumb to.daughter-in-law.
* EvilMatriarch: Willie's motherenchants hates her hated daughter-in-law.
daughter-in-law, and wants her son to marry someone else. Her solution is to curse her daughter-in-law to [[DeathByChildBirth die]].
-->''Of her young bairn she'll neer be lighter,\\
Nor in her bower to shine the brighter.\\
But she shall die and turn to clay,\\
And you shall wed another may.''
*MagicAIsMagicA
MagicAIsMagicA: Willie's mother knows his wife could not have given birth without undoing her spells, which lets them trick the knowledge of how to do it out of her.
* OldRetainer: BellyBlind
Blind, the family household sprite, advises Willie how to defeat his mother in her attempt to [[{{Curse}} kill his wife]].
* ParentalMarriageVeto:Being applied retroactively
Willie's mother tried to do this retroactively via her deadly {{Curse}}.
*WickedWitchWickedWitch: Willie's mother is a "rank witch" who intends to use her powers to murder her daughter-in-law.
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* EvilMatriarch: Willie's mother
-->''Of her young bairn she'll neer be lighter,\\
Nor in her bower to shine the brighter.\\
But she shall die and turn to clay,\\
And you shall wed another may.''
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'''''Willie's Lady''''' is ChildBallad Literature/{{Child Ballad|s}} #6.
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here]]. The ballad is usually played to the same melody as the traditional Breton tune "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v80jZ_ZI-Ec Son ar Chistr]]" ("Cider Song").
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-->''Of her young bairn she'll neer be lighter,\\
Nor in her bower to shine the brighter.\\
But she shall die and turn to clay,\\
And you shall wed another may.''
Nor in her bower to shine the brighter.\\
But she shall die and turn to clay,\\
And you shall wed another may.''
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'''''Willie's Lady''''' is ChildBallad #6.
Willie has married, but his mother, a rank witch, hates his bride and has {{curse}}d her to die in childbirth. He tries to bribe her, and she refuses. At the advice of Belly Blind, a household sprite, he tricks her into thinking that the baby has been born. She falls in to a rage and demands to know who undid all the things she did to prevent it. Willie undoes them all, and the baby is born.
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!!Tropes included
* DeathByChildBirth
* EvilMatriarch
* OldRetainer: Belly Blind
* WickedWitch
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Willie has married, but his mother, a rank witch, hates his bride and has {{curse}}d her to die in childbirth. He tries to bribe her, and she refuses. At the advice of Belly Blind, a household sprite, he tricks her into thinking that the baby has been born. She falls in to a rage and demands to know who undid all the things she did to prevent it. Willie undoes them all, and the baby is born.
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!!Tropes included
* DeathByChildBirth
* EvilMatriarch
* OldRetainer: Belly Blind
* WickedWitch
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