Witch’s Money (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Collier
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The 1930's
- Setting: A small town in the Pyrenees in France
- Principal Characters: Foiral, An unnamed American painter, Arago, Guis, Vigne, Ques, Lafago
- Genres: Short fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Art or artists, Poverty or poor people, Death or dying, Greed, Money, Naivete
- Locales: France, Pyrenees
The Story
Foiral, having taken a load of cork to his market, is returning to his unnamed village, a tiny hamlet in the Pyrenees-Orientales district of France near the Spanish border. Along the roadside, he encounters a poorly dressed stranger whose mannerisms are eccentric; Foiral assumes that the stranger is a madman. The madman is striding aggressively down the road, but he stops, awestruck, at the top of a ridge as he first looks down on Foiral's village.
On the spot, the madman decides to stay there, perceiving the village as “surrealism come to life.” The cork...
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