Not all of her subjects are too afraid of her to ask for boons, however. In one instance, a woman asks her to prevent her maid from marrying a local woodsman, offering her two cows and a sheep as payment. Nessarose casts a spell on the woodsman's axe so that it will attack him and remove his limbs. She says that she knows from personal experience that an individual who doesn't possess limbs is much less desirable to the opposite sex. Her justification for performing such cruel actions is that she is so "righteous" as to do whatever she deems fit, although Maguire seems to suggest that her condition and her circumstances have left her embittered and hardened. It is implied that the unfortunate woodsman in question becomes the Tin Woodman, as the incident perfectly mirrors L. Frank Baum's original account of the Tin Woodman becoming as he is due to the Wicked Witch of the East's enchantments.