Three Blind Mice
Three men arrived in the village wearing black cloth over their eyes, claiming they had been blinded by a strange illness. They lived together in an abandoned farmhouse and became known as the Three Blind Mice, always moving in perfect coordination despite their blindness. At night, villagers heard them whispering the same nursery rhyme over and over. “Three blind mice, three blind mice, See how they run! See how they run! They all ran after the farmer’s wife, Who cut off their tails with a carving knife. Did you ever see such a thing in your life, As three blind mice?” One evening, the farmer’s wife discovered the three men inside her barn, standing around her missing daughter’s bloodied dress. Terrified, she grabbed a carving knife and attacked the first man when he lunged at her, cutting deeply into his side. The other two chased her through the fields, laughing as they shouted, “See how she runs!” By sunrise, the villagers found the farmer’s wife hanging from the farmhouse doo...