Nevelhekse / een verhaal uit de Drentsche venen naar authentieke bescheiden medegedeeld
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The narrative sketches life in a Drenthe peat colony, mixing detailed local administration and everyday routines with a rural tale centered on a physician named Allard who visits a sick woman in the fields and hopes to encounter a local enigmatic woman associated with mist-lore. The prose contrasts communal governance, class and labor divisions, and the colony's slow transport and postal links with folklore, neighborly exchange, and the tensions between providence and local superstition, while following episodes that illuminate customs, landscape, and the precariousness of peasant existence.
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