A withered old crone sat at one of the doors, sunning herself.
Gold and silver, and each thing more precious than another, in the crone's castle.
Her feet were bare, and altogether she was a most repulsive old crone.
The old crone puffed up again at this unexpected flare, and went out of the room, plopping her feet on floor and mumbling.
The two old crones sat with the body all night and all the next day.
The skeletons of two infants can be seen; one discarded to the left, the other held by a crone in the centre foreground.
The word crone is a less common synonym for old woman, and is more likely to appear in reference to traditional narratives than in contemporary everyday usage.
In her early appearances, she appears only as a crone, is often referred to as a witch, and has a tendency to be snappy and mean.
