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Narrative ballad consisting of thirty numbered verses, detailing the trials of a peasant who meets Pestilence in the form of a spirit woman, and is compelled to carry her and help her spread disease. Eventually, they begin to head for his own home, and to save his family the peasant throws himself into a pond, where both he and the 'fever-maiden' drown.
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