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The Haunting Of Tituba (Mysteries Given From The Skies III of IV)

Danvers, Massachusetts 1692    
Deep In The Forest
     
      
Betty Parris and Abagail Williams      
     
Betty, if I can see my fate, when I crack this egg      
May the yolk in the glass give my love to me without having to beg      
Well go ahead      
Oh no, Abagail, I see a coffin      
My fate is doomed, and why is everyone laughing      
It’s just a silly game, Abagail as we sit around the fire to pass the time      
Your prudish father, if he finds out will beat our hides      
     
Tituba      
     
Look into the fire my child now close your eyes and become one with da element      
Submerge your existence in the heat, let it consumes your heart, mind, soul do not fight ya inner turbulent      
See beyond the clouds you are the rain      
Channel ya mind and bring the pain      
Let da stories of your soul in this dimension echo      
Through da fortune of your eyes      
Posses spirits under your commend collide      
Spit into the fire, and tell the devil he is a liar      
Your blood upon stones your cast      
Fortune in truth ya soul shall not outlast      
Through their blinding tears      
In everyone’s presence ya girls shall never have any fears      
     
Reverend Samuel Parris      
     
What in God’s name is going on out here      
Words unbeknown casted in the deep forest, with no one else near      
Demonic chanting and body in a trace state relent      
You chanting in the air, dancing in wild abandonment, animalistic movements      
You girls get back home      
Tituba, put this fire, out, and now, and girls I forbid you out with her all alone      
     
Residence of Reverend Samuel Parris      
In the Twilight Hours      
     
Tituba      
     
I hear ya girls’ mumbling voices in the wallowing in the hills of the night      
Scamping on fours like an injured animal in fright      
Come I tell how we rid those evil spirits and hide them from plan sight      
Rub ya body down with herbs ordained by whispers from roots      
What infested ya body is like a powerful enemy using your body as its fruit      
I... do not know Tituba, I seen a coffin in my path      
And the words you have been chanting in your native dialect, kept me up, but terrifies me with its wraith      
I cannot run from the deafening voices who tell me I will become his and my soul will no longer be mine      
Child my ancestral medicines are of old and blanket ya ails throughout the ages of time      
I give you life through the salvation from da illusions of ya mind      
Take you past the Heavens as I do thee master’s will      
Delirium with me holding the mystery from da skies to the sacrifices of the chicken’s heads after the kill      
Thays carcass are ya soul I now curse when mouths speak ill
My voice sprawling in ya head, me language instilled      
     
February 1692      
Betty Parris and Abagail Williams      
     
Oh, make it stop, it feels like pins prickling my skin      
Voices telling me what to do      
I cannot control the bidding I am now his tool      
     
     
Dr. William Griggs      
     
Doctor what is happening to my girls      
Revered Parris, I think evil has been unleashed on Salem Village to unfurl
Written by SweetKittyCat5
Published | Edited 11th Mar 2022
Author's Note
Puritan faith forbade the practice, so the two girls were cautious, though curious. What sorceries could foresee their spouse...? The egg broke, settled, took shape... The configuration of a coffin emerged in the glass... Both Betty and Abigail were sized with fits. Stunned and “struck dumb,” they choked and convulsed, uncontrollably thrashed their limbs. What unnatural affliction had found them

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