Word: bondwoman
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...this time a witch came to town as a bondwoman to the wool merchant's widow. She was a Norse girl, a beauty with "great, sea-grey eyes" and hair "unbelievably golden"; her name was Swan Ygern. Swan healed the Lord Cinqmort of a bloody flux, and so becharmed his wicked soul that he even left off his wenching to eat her beetle puddings under the Weird Oak Tree. She gave her mistress' daughter the dread effigy of St. Uncumber-to whom unwilling wives prayed that he uncumber them of their mates-and when the poor husband failed...
...setting is the Western Reserve, in the early 1800s, when the West was in Ohio. Widower David Harvey (William Holden) buys Bondwoman Rachel (Loretta Young) for $22, marries her, and brings her back to his remote cabin. He treats her like a servant and his little boy Davey treats her like dirt. When David's old friend, deep-woods Hunter Jim (Robert Mitchum), turns up, Rachel looks to him like fair game. He is indecently polite to her, openly courts her, even offers a better price for her than David paid in the first place. The wooing and wrangling...
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