"i will tell you since you ask me. your daughter dislikes me as her step-mother. for some time past she has shut herself up in her room morning and evening, and looking in as i pass by, i am convinced that she has made an image of me and is trying to kill me by magic art, cursing me daily. it is not safe for me to stay here, such being the case; indeed, indeed, i must go away, we cannot live under the same roof any more."