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40 could not comprehend what it was that had so completely changed their master. A year afterwards, when some witches were being "swum" for having stopped the rain, one of them confessed how she had removed the knight's heart, and had put a hare's heart in its place. Then they understood how a once courageous knight had become a craven. They wept bitter tears over his cruel fate, and, as a punishment, burnt the wicked witch over his grave.