"The Werewolf"

"They knew the wart on the hand at once for a witch's nipple; they drove the old woman, in her shift as she was, out into the snow with sticks, beating her old carcass as far as far as the edge of the forest, and pelted her with stones until she fell down dead."

I found it interesting that the grandmother was killed not for the fact that she was a werewolf, but because the neighbors took the wart on her hand as the marking of a witch. This entire scenario made me think of the times I was learning about the Salem Witch Trials back in high school, and how woman of all ages were killed over the most minor, ridiculous things you could think of. While I'm not totally sympathetic towards the grandmother in this story (she about ate her granddaughter), I did find it silly that she was killed over a wart on her hand.