Sunday, May 11, 2008

Possession of The Body

There was always a myth that people feared in the village I came from in China. In fact, it was not a myth at all. The villagers which included me feared the season of Spring not because of allergies but simply because of a person. This person has a weird disease, not sure what and not sure why it came to her. She was in her old age, around sixties and lived alone. Actually, ignore my ignorance of the origin of her disease. After her son died she became very miserable, her sanity was lost but weirdly only during Spring, other seasons of the year she was mentally capable. Spring is the season we feared, school kids were all terrorized by her. She would walk to my sister's school's back field and pick a flower and stab it into her tightly tied yet messy hair. She would walk around the village and harrass the villagers. I can once recall her being outside my house three in the morning dragging pots and pans and banging it while moaning with that resonated from building to building lit by full moon in the clear dark sky. It was rumored that her periodic insanity is caused by the spirit from the other world. Coincidentally, it is around Spring when the spirit door opens to our mortal world.

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