I think it just means the witch came for food or money every day. Likely leftover food from the inn.
beg [VERB]
1.1 [WITH OBJECT] Acquire (food or money) from someone by begging:
"a piece of bread which I begged from a farmer" (ODO)
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Improved the formatting so that the example sentence is separated from the definition
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