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The Witch in Her Hut, the Outlaw in the Hills: Isolation in Northern European Folklore
While both witches and outlaws in Northern European folklore dwell at the edges of society, their solitude is not the same. The outlawβs isolation is legal and punishing, born of exile and often tinged with suffering. The witchβs isolation, by contrast, is chosenβfunctional, even sacred. One is cast out; the other retreats. One survives the wilderness; the other communes with it.