Village Nights: The Ghost Riders

In the middle of the night, if I let the reign of my childhood fantasies lose..I find my village boundaries full of 'Ghosts', 'Jins', flames from the burnt pyre long ago,'drowning dead' moving beside our pond and gradually disappearing in to the deep down water.
It sends me a deep spine-chilling shiver but tonight it is safe to talk from my cozy cot at this hour of the night.
 

Well....I take you to the eastern distant 'mango orchard' ....with an old 'Well'......where every midnight a Headless Monster moves to and forth with a naked sword...riding a horse...blood dripping all along the way. I never dared to go there but have seen moving...fiery...colored lights many a time. God knows what the truth is !!

Then if you move clock wise................a place where last rituals of human dead..... in our village is performed on the burning pyre....most often by the villagers. But every midnight brings another scene....sudden eruption of fire is mostly seen of fluorescent bluish tent. People call it something to do with the Phosphorus of bones left over, but it's an awful...when seen all of sudden..caught unaware !!
 

And the western side is an area of a big & dense 'Jungle', where a grand 'Bunyan' tree stands with lot many aerial roots....is said to be inhabitated by a 'Jin'. Some 30 years back in my childhood days...it has caused much distress to one of the young youth of our village......and as it was out of the bounds of all possible voodoo control....lives were lost, and since then....we never dared to go close to that tree.
 

And most interesting of all...the big deep 'Pond' just beside my house...has been the cause of drowning deaths of many kids accidently. Once as I was passing through the side of this pond....I saw a young girl moving in to the bank...I called her to stop...she did not hear me & vanished in to the deep down water. It was just the midnight hour of that day....
 

Ooooops....what's that ??
Something moving below my cot..pushing me up..
Oooooooh.....its bumpy force on my back....Ouchhhhh.....
Oh my God...........I am down on the ground...dust all around.................and my glasses ??
....hard to see anything in the pitchdark night....
Several unknown pigmy creatures with lot many appendages are trying to take me to.....
Ohhhhhh......awwwww....it's................... hurting.....s..o..r..r..y.........hard .....to talk any....m....o......r........e
S..h..a..r..e.......more.....i..f......I......survive...this..........MIDNIGHT

 

dated:may 31st thurs 2012