Once a woman carrying a new basket went to the forest to gather mushrooms. As she was picking mushrooms, it started to pour. She took off all her clothes and tucked them under the basket. She herself stood under a tree until the rain stopped. Then she put on her dry clothes again and went on picking mushrooms. As she was mushrooming, she met a VELNIAS. The VELNIAS asked, "were you picking mushrooms during the rain?" She said, "I was". Then he asked, "How come you weren't drenched?" The woman said, "I know a certain secret and the rain has no effect on me." Then the VELNIAS started asking the woman to tell him her secret. The woman agreed to tell him under the condition that he would reveal all his devilish powers to her. The VELNIAS laid out all that he knew. Then the woman knew how to bewitch people and how to cure them again. It was from her that Witches spread. The woman said, "when you go to the woods, you must always bring along a new basket. When it starts raining, cover your clothes and they won't get wet." Then the VELNIAS spat on the ground and, flying away, he yelled out, "to hell with your secret!" And from then on, that woman remained a Witch.
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