Week 14 Reading A: Russian Fairy Tales

I found the story of The Dead Mother very surprising. I thought that the ghost of the mother was coming back from the grave to take care of her baby, but then the baby died at the end. I wasn't sure if the baby died because the father and his friends interrupted the mother while she was taking care of it and that had some weird side effect, or if she had been intending to kill it the whole time so she wouldn't be alone in the after life.

                                    
                                                                     (Ghost)