Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Gypsy Woman

This gypsy woman appears in “The Hunt” (Sandman # 30).

She encounters Vassily while he’s out hunting and after he gives her some food, offers to let him look into her bag of trinkets, which includes things like the Emerald Heart of Koschei The Deathless (which resembles the heart shaped shard of glass seen in Sandman # 9 and ), the Cloak Of Night, and the locket with a picture of the Duke’s daughter.

The gypsy woman encounters Vassily a second time where she gives him the advice of always following his heart and showing him the locket with the picture of the Duke’s daughter. When she offers to predict Vassily’s future, she sees something that frightens her and she runs away.

Later, when Vassily leaves his father’s home to follow his heart’s desire, he encountered the gypsy woman one final time. He found her, on the road, dead. Her body was cold and she had blood on her throat. Vassily took her peddler’s bag with him on his journey.

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