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The Witch (written for the supernatural contest)

Written for the Supernatural story contest
prompt # 1
2,519 words

The Witch
By Lisa Noe


“There I was in the deep dark woods of the Appalachian Mountains the moon was full and big and yellow it hung in the sky like an ornament on a Christmas tree. I knew the night would be mine as I was going to change this night. I would become one of the slinkiest of all creatures, this night I shall become a black cat.
I love the creature and I feel so beautiful when I am the cat. As A female I am known by all as a young woman of high standards. I don’t have a male companion I am a loner. The children in the near by neighborhood are afraid of me, they believe me to be strange, and I suppose they are correct in their assumption, as I am a witch. I change during the full moon to a black cat and I prowl the woods with the up most freedom. I secretly like the fact that the children are afraid of me. I really love to frighten folks.
I go up to the insane asylum every now and then to show off my magic, no one ever believes the loons that live there so I can just be me, and no one will be the wiser. I would love to be the type of witch that did not care what happened to people which I am. I like to play with those at the asylum but for the most part I don’t bother the children near me. But on Halloween I will be out to get one of the little dears and frighten it until it too will have to go to the asylum. Many of the people there are there because of me. People don’t believe in witches but we do exist. I am a jokester, I’ve never killed anyone but I do like to drive him or her crazy. I will place a curse on those who I feel have done me wrong or if I’m bored I’ll pick out someone whom I feel is not a good person. There is a woman that lives a few blocks away, I know that she is not a very nice person, she is married and had an affair with a man,which I caused with my magic and she is not very nice to her mother. She does not have children and she is kind of stuck on herself. I think I will take it upon myself to bring fear upon her. I will place a spell on her that will make her fear everyone, and think they are out to get her. Then I will show myself to her as a witch and let her see me change into a cat, which I love to do anyway.

On Halloween I know she will fear that people are going to abduct her and that they will chase her through The woods on ATVs until they capture her. They will then take her underground and torture her and threaten to use a chainsaw on her, this will make her fear everyone she comes into contact with. I can be wicked to those who I feel deserve it. I have many scenarios that I can use when people are bad. I make sure people who do wrong pay for what they are doing. This particular woman is named Virginia, and Virgi as they call her is deserving of some punishment. She will end up in the asylum if I can help it.”

This is the way the witch likes to do things she will pick a person and boy does that person pay, they become a victim of their own mind. Virginia was terribly afraid come Halloween she begged for God to forgive her for the error of her ways, she stopped seeing the man that she was having an affair with and she begged her mom to forgive her as well. Virgi could not stand the way she was feeling it was a nightmare. She heard voices screaming, asking her to help them. In reality it was just a spell that the witch placed on her. But to her it was real, the voices were of people she knew and loved. She thought they were being tortured and she thought who ever was doing that to her family were going to come after her next. The witch laughed and thought the whole thing was funny. Virgi could not take it she was afraid of everyone and did not trust anyone. Even her own husband and mother. She thought the devil was real and going to come after her the anti Christ had risen she began to think. She was starting to lose it, she began to believe in vampires and witches every thing a person could think of that was crazy she began believing in.
Finally she could not take it any longer so she took a bottle of pills to end it all but her husband rushed her to the emergency room to save her life and they pumped her stomach and put her in the psych-ward of the hospital. Where she met the woman who she did not realize was the witch . She became friends with the witch in the hospital, The witch had planned it this way so that she could get Virgi back for all she had done. The witch took out the Bible and showed Virgi that what she had done was wrong, making her feel guilty for what she had done with the man of whom she had an affair. It had not been a physical affair it was just an affair of the heart, they spoke only by phone but still Virgi had feelings for the man. But that was now over and she wanted forgiveness. The witch reviled the girl for what she had done the witch was unforgiving. And only wanted to get even as Virgi’s husband had once been the boyfriend of the witch. So she was terribly jealous of Virgi. She would not lighten up on Virgi she would make Virgi’s life miserable as long as she could. Virgi was finally declared fit enough to go home after about two weeks in the hospital. She felt very bad for what she had done and wanted nothing more than forgiveness from both God and her family. Though her husband did not know what had been going on. A few weeks passed and she began to get stronger and trust her husband and family again however the witch could not stand for this to happen, she wanted to make her miserable again. She placed another spell on Virgi, causing Virgi to fear children, this was because she had no children, she was unable to give birth to one. So she feared every child she came into contact with. She thought they were evil and she thought aliens had spawn the children. Virgi had always been a smart and stable woman but now with the spell the witch placed on her she was believing in every crazy thing coming and going. Meanwhile the witch could change herself into other people and things at will. She changed herself in to Virgi’s mother and came to Virgi and caused a fight between the two of them. She was trying everything to cause Virgi to be hated by her husband, because secretly the witch wanted Bob, the husband of Virgi, back for herself. She was still in love with him. But he loved Virgi very much regardless of the fact that she was acting so bizarr and crazy. She was his wife and he was going to stay by her side, he did not believe in divorce. Neither did Virgi and she too was still in love with Bob. She no longer had a relationship with the other man. She had really changed. To be honest the only reason that she spoke with the man was because the witch placed a love spell on her to cause her to fall in love with him. Virgi came to hate the man and she also suspected that there was a witch behind all that was happening to her. She became ill and was hospitalized, she had to have surgery after surgery for various problems that arose, the witch caused her illnesses. She thought she would try to make her ill enough so that she would die. But Virgi was luckily one who believed in the benefit of prayer, and that worked for her as she used prayer cloths every time she became ill and it helped to get her better or at least that was what she believed. The witch could not compete with the strong prayers of Virgi’s family. But she was relentless she would continue to cause Virgi to become ill.

One day The witch turned herself into a cat and took up with Virgi, Virgi being an avid cat lover took in the stray cat or what she thought was a cat. She brought the cat inside to live with them. The cat took up with Bob and would sit in his lap. This pleased the witch, that she could be so close to Bob. At night she would lay in bed with the two of them as a cat, she was able to keep the two spouses apart. If Virgi began to kiss Bob then the cat (witch) would claw her face and then jump and run away, causing Virgi to get out of bed to doctor her scratches. No one would believe Virgi that something was up. She was so frightened she even called the police to tell them that someone was after her. The police did not believe her either. Though the witch kept up the torment for years, while Virgi and Bob grew further apart and Virgi became a basket case of nerves. Virgi got it in her mind that her neighbors where going to get after her and torture her, she believed they already had her sister and that the witch was pretending to be her. Poor Virgi was truly being tortured in her mind. The witch laughed a sinister laugh, she did not care what anyone said or thought she was going to ruin Virgi. She could not kill her, it was against her own beliefs to murder but she could drive her insane. Virgi began believing and knowing in her heart that a witch was behind all of her problems. There she was, she was poor, sick, crazy, and her marriage was shaky and she had no friends and her relationships with all of her family members was on the rocks. All she had, in her mind, were her cats. They were the only things that loved her she thought. With the exception of the one that took up with Bob, which was in reality the witch, who was madly in love with Bob. She became a female and a friend of Bob’s she put a spell on him that made him think he was in love with the female she had now become. She called herself Jullie. He started seeing Jullie and even told his wife, Virgie that Jullie should move in with them as she had no place to go, she was homeless she had told them. So Virgie, not knowing of the relationship of the two allowed her to move in to the spare room. While Virgie was in the hospital one night Bob and Jullie had an affair, in reality Jullie was the witch and she was finally getting her way. Jullie was in love with Bob and wanted to get Virgie out of the picture for good,. She did not know how to do that as she had tried everything she had known to do, she made her sick and crazy, she made her fall in love with another man and him fall in love with another woman. She then decided to make her have an accident perhaps the accident would even kill her. One day Virgie was coming home from town and she lost control of her car and hit a tree, which caused her car to flip on its side. Virgie was unconscious and in bad shape as she did not have a seat belt on. She was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. But she survived but all of her bones were broken both legs both arms her ribs and she had a concussion and several discs in her back had ruptured. She was in terrible pain. The hospital called Bob who rushed to the scene with Jullie. When he saw his beautiful wife he could not help but to feel guilty he was afraid she was going to die. At that moment he promised God that if she would live that he would tell Jullie she would have to go because she was causing trouble in his marriage and he loved his wife. This made the witch furious, her plan had backfired on her. Virgie was in the hospital for a very long time she and Bob became closer while she was there. She knew that Bob had been messing around with Jullie but she had never said anything because she felt guilty for the phone relationship she herself had. When she finally got out of the hospital she had casts on both arms and both legs were also broken but they did not put casts on them due to the fact she had to have surgery on both of them. She was filled now with metal, and joked she was like frankenstein.
The witch moved out of the house and back home where she sulked over not getting her way. She realized it was no use that she could not have Bob because he loved his wife and would not leave her for anything.
And Virgi also loved Bob and would not leave him. So the witch thought she would give it one more try
This time she would make them turn against each other’s family Bob would begin fighting with and disliking Virgi’s mother and her mother would in turn dislike Bob. Whereas Bob’s Mother would dislike Virgi and She would also dislike her. This caused a lot of trouble in both families. There was constant fighting and arguing. Their family was being torn apart. The witch liked doing this she caused Virgi to also turn against members of her own family, grand parents and aunts and uncles where she did not trust them or like them any longer. The witch loved causing all of these problems. Virgi finally got to where she could not take all of the turmoil and she decided to start going to church, where she was baptized and ask for the Lord’s forgiveness of all of her sins. She also kept on to Bob to do the same thing and after a while he decided he would. So the two of them were saved and this caused the witch to go away and leave them alone where they lived happily ever after.

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