Baba Yaga and the Toad Soup

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'When he was penniless, which was most of the time, he got people in the back of the market to give him the chicken heads that they where going to throw away and he would take them to Nigromanta to make her soups, fortified with purslane and seasoned with mint. When the great-grandfather died Aureliano stopped going by the house, but he would run into Nigromanta under the dark almond trees on the square, using her wild-animal whistles to lure the few night owls.'
Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
I liked this passage so much, I used it for my basic starting point