In bygone days there was something in Närke the like of which was not to be found elsewhere: it was a witch, named Ysätter-Kaisa.  
The name Kaisa had been given her because she had a good deal to do with wind and storm—and these wind witches are always so called. The surname was added because she was supposed to have come from Ysätter swamp in Asker parish.
 
It seemed as though her real must have been at Asker; but she used also to appear at other places. Nowhere in all Närke could one be sure of not meeting her.
 
She was no dark, mournful witch, but gay and ; and what she loved most of all was a of wind. As soon as there was wind enough, off she would fly to the Närke plain for a good dance. On days when a whirlwind swept the plain, Ysätter-Kaisa had fun! She would stand right in the wind and spin round, her long hair flying up among the clouds and the long trail of her robe the ground, like a dust cloud, while the whole plain lay spread out under her, like a floor.
 
Of a morning Ysätter-Kaisa would sit up in some tall pine at the top of a , and look across the plain. If it happened to be winter and she saw many teams on the roads she hurriedly blew up a , piling the drifts so high that people could barely get back to their homes by evening. If it chanced to be summer and good harvest weather, Ysätter-Kaisa would sit quietly until the first hayricks had been loaded, then down she would come with a couple of heavy showers, which put an end to the work for that day.
 
It was only too true that she seldom thought of anything else than raising . The burners up in the Kil mountains hardly dared take a cat-nap, for as soon as she saw an unwatched , she stole up and blew on it until it began to burn in a great flame. If the metal drivers from Laxå and Svartå were out late of an evening, Ysätter-Kaisa would veil the roads and the country round about in such dark clouds that both men and horses lost their way and drove the heavy trucks down into swamps and .
 
If, on a summer's day, the dean's wife at Glanshammar had spread the tea table in the garden and along would come a of w............