There was once a man-eating ogress called Black Meg. Like another mother of Grendel, she lived in a cave on the wild and lonely expanse of Ancaster Heath in Lincolnshire. With foul and evil spells she made the land barren, and with her long iron claws she would strip the skin and flesh of any living thing she came upon as she roamed up and down the roads in that place...

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