Marshes

WADDERGROUND is a drowned maiden living in a swamp. Her black hair is spread over her naked shoulders and tucked away with sedge and forget-me-nots, pale-faced with green eyes, always naked and ready to lure people to her only to tickle them to death without any special guilt and drown them in a quagmire. Swamps can send crushing storms, torrential rains, destructive hail to the fields; to steal threads, canvases and canvases from women who have fallen asleep without prayer.