The Eagles - The Very Best of(2003)

Witchy Woman

                        Witchy Woman

Raven hair and ruby lips
Sparks fly from her fingertips
Echoed voices in the night
She's a restless spirit on an endless flight

Woo hoo, witchy woman
See how high she flies
Woo hoo, witchy woman
She got the moon in her eye

She held me spellbound in the night
Dancing shadows and firelight
Crazy laughter in another room
And she drove herself to madness with a silver spoon

Woo hoo, witchy woman
See how high she flies
Woo hoo, witchy woman
She got the moon in her eye

Well, I know you want a lover
Let me tell you, brother
She's been sleeping in the devil's bed
And there's some rumours going round, someone's underground
She can rock you in the night-time 'til your skin turns red

Woo hoo, witchy woman
See how high she flies
Woo hoo, witchy woman
She got the moon in her eye


                        Witchy Woman

     Melissa, Jennifer, and Brenda suddenly stop to stare at
where Stella is heading with their mouths open and their
eyes almost popping out of their heads. But Stella doesn’t
see her new friends as she turns and starts walking toward
her house.

     “Didn’t you hear me?” asks Stella. “I asked you
how you think that you did today on your math test.”

     Stella stops and turns toward her friends. “What’s
wrong? Why did you stop? And why are you looking like you
have seen a ghost?”

     “Is this where you live?” Melissa asks.

     “It has been for the last almost three months,” says
Stella. “Why?”

     Melissa, Jennifer, and Brenda look at each other. Then
they look back at Stella with the same spooky expression on
their faces. “You don’t know what happened here about thirty
years ago, do you?” Jennifer asks.

     “No, I don’t. What happened?” Stella asks.

     “Witchy Woman, that’s what happened. Actually,
it should be witchy young woman. Only she didn’t go by either
title until around ten years later when it was found out
that she was practicing witchcraft before she died,” says
Brenda. “She has been called that ever since then.”

     Stella looks at her house. Then she looks back at her
friends. “Are you trying to tell me that I have a ghost
living in my new house? I don’t believe it. You’re just
pranking the new kid in town. Aren’t you?”

     “I wish we were,” says Melissa. “But we aren’t. You do
have a ghost living in your house.”

                             #

     Jennifer, Brenda, and Stella are sitting in Melissa’s
living room as she enters with some snacks and drinks. After
she places the snacks on the coffee table in front of them
and gives them their drinks, Melissa sits down too. “Have
you started the movie about our ghost yet?” Melissa asks.

     “No, I haven’t. I wanted to wait until you got here,”
says Brenda. “We all know how you love scary movies.”

     “I still do like them,” responds Melissa. “But not as
much after I saw this one.”

     Brenda grabs the remote off the coffee table and turns
on the television there. Then she hits the play button on
the remote to turn on the movie. The movie starts with a
young girl of thirteen flying around a house. Scaring a
family of five who are trying to get away from her. After a
few minutes of this, the five of them run out of that house
and down the street. With the young girl right behind them.

     Only she stays with the house. Just after she leaves
it, she flies to the top of it to sit on the roof laughing
evilly as the family continues running down that street.
“That is another family who isn’t going to be coming back to
my house.”

     Suddenly, the young girl flies up a little bit. Then
she dives through the roof back into that house. The credits
for this movie begin as a montage of different families and
several real estate agents roam around that house. With the
agents trying to sell it. and the families running away from
it because of that young girl showing up to scare them away.

     The credits end with an almost twenty-five-year-old
ambulance pulling in front of that house. Only now it looks
that old. Two male EMTs get out of it. And take a gurney
with a young girl on it up to that house. Once there they go
into it without knocking.

     After they enter that house, they take the gurney into
the living room. As they enter there, they stop at a desk
with a nurse sitting behind it. “We have another one for you
nurse Becky.”

     “This is the ninth one today,” says Becky. “And it’s
not even the noon hour yet.”

     “I just take them where they tell me,” says one of the
EMTs. “You will probably be getting a few more before the
day is over. The hospital is very busy today. And they are
having us take as many of the dying out of there as we can.”

     Becky takes the medical records from the other EMT when
they are given to her. She opens up the folder and starts
mumbling as she reads it. “I understand why they need to be
taken away from the hospital. But why are they all being
brought here? There are three other death houses. Some of
them should be taken to them.”

     Just then the young girl leans up on her elbows. She’s
groggy as she speaks. Her words are hard to understand.
“There has been a big mistake. I shouldn’t be here. I’m not
dying. True, I am very sick. But I’m not that sick.”

     Suddenly, all four girls are startled when the front
door opens, and Melissa’s parents come in. “What are you
girls watching?” Melissa’s mom asks.

     “I know that I’m not supposed to be watching this
movie,” says Melissa. “But we had to do it.” Melissa points
to Stella. “Stella is living in that death house now.”

     “Besides, we haven’t even gotten to the scary part yet
when she is killed by accident because of Dr. Dying.”

                             #

     “Daddy,” shouts Stella as she runs into their house. “I
want to ask you something.”

     Mitch comes out of the living room with a tablet in his
hands. “Why are you shouting? What’s wrong?”

     “Is it true that we are living in a death house?”
Stella asks.

     “It’s true,” answers Mitch. “Almost thirty years ago
there was a serial killer known as Dr. Dying who killed
about fifty dying patients.”

     Stella goes into the living room and sits down in one
of the chairs there. “Not all of them were dying, though.
Were they?”

     “No, there was one girl you age who wasn’t dying,”
answers Mitch. “But she was also killed by him. In fact, she
is the one who stopped him from killing any more patients.
Because of her not being about to die she came back as a
ghost to stop him from killing anyone else.”

     “How did she do that?” Stella asks.

     Mitch sits down next to Stella. “No one knows that for
sure. But the biggest theory is that she inhabited his body.
And confessed to the killings using his voice.”

     Stella smiles. “A girl my age did that. I didn’t even
know a ghost could do that.”

     “That’s why it’s just a theory,” says Mitch. “It’s been
so long no one can remember how she did it. All that they
know is that she did.”

     “How long have you known she is here?” Stella asks.

     Mitch gets up and starts pacing around that room. “I’ve
known right from the beginning. After all, I did use to live
in Blue Rivers.”

     “Then why did we move in here?” Stella asks.

     “Because we are right next to my wife and your mother,”
answers Mitch. “And because it’s the only place that we
could afford.”

     Stella gets up and stops her dad from pacing. “What is
she still doing here? Why didn’t she leave after she stopped
Dr. Dying?”

     “That’s another big theory,” answers Mitch. “A lot of
people think that she’s still here because of what she did
to Dr. Dying. They like that she did it. But not the way it
was done.”

     “Are you one of those people?” Stella asks.

     Mitch sits back down. “No, I’m not. That’s because I
don’t think that she’s still here. No one has seen her in
several years. Some say it’s been since the movie was made
about her.”

     “That’s not true,” says Grace as she walks in there.
“Tina is still here. She’s just not trying to make us leave
like all the others. That’s because we are friends.”

     “I meet her a few days after we got here,” continues
Grace. “She liked I didn’t run away screaming. We talked and
played together. And before we knew it, she was a big sister
that I always wanted.”

     Stella looks mad as she gets up and walks toward Grace.
“What about me? I’m your big sister.”

     “Yes, I know you are. But now I have another one,” says
Grace. “One that isn’t always picking on me or ignoring me.”

     “I’m sorry,” says Stella as she puts her arm around
Grace. “I won’t do that anymore.”

     Stella slowly starts scanning the ceiling above her.
“Did you hear that Witchy Woman? You don’t need to take over
my body. I’m going to be nice to her from now on.”

     “Tina doesn’t mind being called that,” says Grace. “In
fact, she likes it. It makes people afraid of her and what
they might do to them.”

     Suddenly, Tina appears on the other side of Grace with
her arm around her too. “Don’t worry. I’m not going to do
anything to your body. I don’t do that anymore.”

     “Grace is right,” says Tina. “I’m still here. And I’m
here to stay. She looks at Mitch and Stella. “Hello, Stella
and Mitch.”

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