The witch

A long time ago in a rural area, there lived a couple. The husband was named Sok and the wife was Sao. They had a son and a daughter. When getting older, Grandpa Sok went away from his village to do the saddle wood business and occasionally came back home. While grandma Sao at home had learnt the spell lesson, and became a magician who could cast a charm or spell efficiently, so her standard of living was better. Unfortunately, as not strictly following up the lesson, Grandma Sao, in addition to a medium and charmer, became a witch ( nocturnal ghost).

Every night, she Manifested herself as a floating head with her viscera hanging down from the neck, flying out of the window. The head was accompanied by will-o'-the-wisp kind of glow, which greatly surprised all the villagers. Whenever her children dropped off to a deep sleep, Grandma Sao always separated her head from the body and the head floated out of a worship room consisting of a nine-tier banana leaf ornament, incense, candles, tusk from wild boars, and skulls , whick looked frightening. One day on their way to home from the farm, her two children came across 4 or 5 villagers who were transplanting rice. An old lady among the villagers saw the children of Grandma Sao and said:

- Kids! Do you know anything about your mom?

- What's wrong, Aunt? (They replied together)

- Your mom is a witch!

- what is the witch ? ( the girl asked )

- At night, the witch separated her head with the hanging down viscera from the body, flying in search of eating mud, pus and blood , and afterbirth at the people's houses in the village. If you didn't believe me, you'll see it at 1 or 2 over the night, when roosters crowed at first. But you had to promise not to tell your mom that I had told you about this. If she was informed, she'll cast a spell on me. After so hearing, the two kids walked beyond the villagers in sad face. Grandma Sao's daughter consulted with her brother:

- To ight we'll have to spy on our mom to learn if what they said was the truth

- Sister! I've also taken some notice of her. Now she's got a scare around her neck and always sat uttering magic words at her shrine

- That's true, brother! Recently, I've invited her to go to the pagoda a few times, but she refused to go. Now, to see the truth, we shouldn't sleep tonight and when roosters crowed at first, we'll go to see at her room.

As soon as the midnight passed, the tow kids hid near a clump of banana trees. Certainly, they saw their mother's head flying out of the window. They went up to check in the shrine room. Discovering that their mother's body head no head, the kids threw into a blue funk. Until grey dawn, they packed up to go to their grandmother, who lived in the nearby village. Realizing that her children went away from her, grandma Sao went to take them home, but they refused to come, She was very disappointed with her children, but endured to live alone in a such a big house. A few months later, her husband came back. On his way home, several people, including his children told him but he did not believe them because he missed his wife so much. Upon his arrival at home, he also asks his wife about people's word. " They're defaming me" she refused, " because they see that I'm a charmer who can earn a lot of money". In that night, it was very sweet spouses. The husband told his wife about his business and chatted in a way that the elderly usually did. Then the husband dropped off. That night Grandma Sao did not went for food for fear of being seen by her husband. Next day, Grandma Sao was very hungry, her mouth watering and her tongue licking her lips and llar her appetite. Another next night, she pretended to sleep well making the sound. While seeing that her husband slept well, she walked secretly to the shrine room and then separated her head from neck and flew away. Being ware of the situation, Grandpa walked secretly into the shrine room. He saw only her body sleeping upside. He came in to turn her body down and went back to sleep in his room. When grandma came back home, her neck was wrongly linked with the body. When the sun was rising, she could not pull her neck from the body. she knelt down to salute her husband in tears, while grandpa was sleeping cross-legged, taking no notice. She begged," it is my fault, my dear. I tell you a lie.please understand we are husband and wife, help me turn my body to the right side. Grandpa said, " This is the evidence, the back side turns to front and the front to back. That is alright, I will help you turn it to the right side. I will not live with you anymore." Since leaving her husband and children, grandma Sao seems to have more freedom. At night, she found fly in and out whenever she wished. she flew everywhere to the villager's house to find out if the women or animals delivered the baby in order to ship the blood or to eat the placenta for her food. But people always out the Thorny trees under their houses, at the foamy mud or at any place with blood and bury the placenta into the deep ground and put the Thorny trees on it So Mrs witch was very difficult to look for food.One night, after not finding food at the village, Mrs witch flew to paddy field to search for the dead frog fish or animals for her food. That night she met a ground of children who were fixing the rod in the ground each had a cloth bag to put the frog. Among Them there was a naughty boy whose name was Chamrong who was bending to hook the bait. Suddenly grandma Sao flew and stayed behind him. Chamrong exclaimed: " Who touch a flashlight on the buttock it will scare fish." As soon as the other boy saw he shouted " it is the light of witch ! the witch is behind you " Chamrong turned his head and saw the witch he ran for life and screamed " Witch ! witch ! help me please!" Because there were many children, they were not frightened by witch, they picked up the piece of soil to throw at the witch and some used the slingshots to shoot at the witch. Mrs witch was so nervous and then flew up very high. " Ouch, all these boys were not scared of me, otherwise they shot at me nearly hitting my eyes " She exclaimed, " wait! whenever they separate, I will bite ears to absorb their blood ". Grandma Sao was so angry with the boys that she flew very fast to another village. As afraid of the boys, they witch often turned back and up, then she hooked up with the bamboo branches near the river. She could not remove until they sky was dawn. While seeing the intestines, liver lung and gallbladder of the witch hooking down at the bamboo branches the crow thought that it was food they flew to eat. She was so nervous that she screamed " crow! crow ! Crow !" hearing the voice the crows were scared and flew away. Meanwhile a bachelor sitting on his boat to out the fishing net heard the witch shouting, he said:

- " Who was that ? why shouting so high, are you a ghost?"

- Oh! Grandson, I am a human being. Please help grandma will give you five chi of gold for the marriage. "

While the young man saw grandma Sao as a witch he felt pitiful for her and other way he also needed the gold for his marriage, he replied:

- " Oh! Five Chi of gold, is that really ?

- grandma dos not tell you a lie. But you have to hide this story not to tell others at all.

- I agree with you

After saying, the young man went to save Grandma Sao to fly away. the next day, Grandma Sao covered a scarf over her head taking the five chi of gold to give to the young man. Since then, Grandma Sao did not dare to fly out often, so she lacked of blood ans become sick. One more thing, she was wounded by hooking up at the bamboo branches and bitting by the crows, she fell into chronic sickness and due to her old age she passes away immediately Her Husband and children cremate her corpse in according to the traditional.The End

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