Old Woman
The old woman at the edge of the wood or the edge of the tale: she keeps the hut the hero must be civil in, she knows the one thing nobody else knows, and what she is owed is usually courtesy rather than payment.
The old woman at the edge of the wood or the edge of the tale: she keeps the hut the hero must be civil in, she knows the one thing nobody else knows, and what she is owed is usually courtesy rather than payment.