Recently, I saw a picture online where a white chalk was written round a car and the owner of the car abandoned the car for days, haha.
He kept taking taxi to work but decided to get help through his mechanic. He called his mechanic to go carry his car for repair. The mechanic got there, saw the white chalk written round the floor space where the car was packed, ran back that he cannot touch the car.
But the man upon returning back from work the next day saw his son sitting and playing inside the white chalk mark. He shouted and asked the child never to go near there, but the child drew him near to see, that it was not even a chalk mark but spoilt flour which he has been asked to throw away but decided to prank his Dad with it. I learnt the boy is still receiving beating till now.
I don't know about where you lived but some of us grew up in environment where people fear too much
I remember when I was a kid, during night plays under the moon.
we would end the day by bullying one particular boy in the compound. His name was Azuka
First, we would write the initial of his name nearly everywhere in the compound. When he sees it, he will cry and demand that we clean it. We won't, instead, we would spell out his name in full in different parts of the compound before going to bed. We would tell him that spirits will come and copy his name and even call him up to follow them at night. Hahahaha. Azuka will shout and run inside. The next morning he will begin to gist of how in his dream, some things were chasing him.
One day, as usual we wrote his name everywhere, not knowing that he had told his mother about our incessant bully and his family planned against us.
They began with one of us, named Adim.
The next morning, we were all alarmed when Adim's family woke up and couldn't cross the front of their door. They were all shouting " Jesus Jesus" , until many people in the compound including my family woke up.
Upon getting to the doorstep of the people shouting, we found that the Adim's name was written with white chalk in front of their door . And a mysterious red piece of cloth was left there on the floor too.
We were all scared and didn't know what to think. But I sneaked out in confusion to check all the places we wrote Azuka's name and noticed that all them had been replaced with Adim's name ( that same name written on that door post, which we didn't even write). I became scared. Could spirits have actually come? There is trouble.
Someone brought a bottle of something not named and sprinkled it on their corridor and prayed, he then asked them to come out. You needed to see how they were all sweating profusely.
Immediately, a meeting of the whole compound was called and at that meeting, it was announced that the culprit should confess before the matter is taken to the village chief . Adim's parents even threatened to take it up spiritually too to find who is hunting their family.
All the parents were begging their children to confess, my parents were convinced that I was not found among those playing that kind of prank, let alone the real culprit. So there was no need begging me to confess
The parents of Adim, whose named was messed with threatened fire and brimstone for everyone involved. It was then I became afraid.
Everyone noticed I was panicky and asked me to say what I knew.
So I told them how we tease Azuka every night and write his name down for spirits . I also told them that I am surprised that everywhere in the compound where we had written his name last night, turned out to be Adim's name. But I swore that we didn't write Adim's name, neither did we know anything about the red piece of cloth. I was already crying.
The knock my mother gave me on the head was one that can send someone to admission in the hospital. I was knocked down. Other mischievous children joined me in crying because theirs were loading. Hahaha
That was when Azuka's Mom spoke up. She told everyone how their child has been having nightmares and when they inquired from him, he told them what the children in the house has been doing with his name. So for a change, she and her husband decided to switch the name starting with one of us and did the extra prank on the door of Adim's parents.
Adim's parents tried to disagree with her but she was smart enough to involve two other families to serve as witnesses. The whole thing turned into laughter when everyone knew it was a prank.
The children were warned to desist from such kind of rough play. Adim's family even later packed out of the compound, probably believing that people could actually conspire to harm them in reality. Hahahaha
My parents didn't move out of the house but gave me a thorough beating and demanded to know how we knew that spirits would come at night to copy the boy's name. It became more scary when they asked if I am aware that the boy claim he was having nightmares. No matter how hard I tried to pronounce that psychology was the thing wrong with the boy, the extra beating I got with "psycho, psycho, Psy, psychology kill you there" was much.
I don't know if my parents don't believe that what you think about is what you dream about. That boy goes to bed scared every night, why won't he dream of spirits!. Hahaha. Anyways, wicked spirits are powerful and now I know better not to play with certain things. But in all, those who fear too much, even a falling dry leaf from a tree can give them hypertension when it drops on them. Hahaha.
Thanks for your visit. I hope I made you laugh it loud n longer.
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