“But it was no longer a wolf’s paw. It was a hand, chopped off at the wrist, a hand toughened with work and freckled with old age. There was a wedding ring on the third finger and a wart on the index finger. By the wart, she knew it for her grandmother’s hand.”
I was very surprised to learn that the little girl’s grandma had been the werewolf that attacked her in the woods. The werewolf paw that turned into her grandma’s hand proves that the grandma turns into a werewolf. I was prepared for the girl to encounter danger on her way to her grandma’s house because of descriptions of her home such as “wreaths of garlic on the doors keep out the vampires” and “the Devil they glimpse often in the graveyards,” but I was surprised that it was her grandma that attacked her. The bloody encounter in the woods could also be the reason for her grandma’s sickness but I do not believe that Carter tells us this either way. Books normally do not frighten me but this is as scared as I ever have been while reading a book.
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