The Master's Hat

The Master had one more thing with which he did not part — an old hat. Superstitious residents believed that it was in her that the secret of the puppeteer was. It was rumored that the hat fulfills the wishes of the one who wears it. The boys tried to steal it, but each time unsuccessfully.
 
And then one day the performances stopped. The cart did not go to the square either a day or a week later. The children were bored, and the adults just shrugged their shoulders: " The weirdo probably went into the swamp". A month later, they still decided to look into the Master's house.
 
The Puppeteer was sitting in his chair, but he was no longer breathing. The headman took off his hat from the chair, twirled it in his hands, looked inside. There were no magic threads or strange signs. " An ordinary old hat," he said, and threw the hat into a corner.
 
In the morning, the locals came to bury the Master, but the hat was no longer in the hut. No one saw who took it. No one knows where she is now. But sometimes in the swamp they notice a black silhouette in a hat wandering between the trees.