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Supernatural [electronic resource] Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. I started look- ing for old books like Fletcher has, like I saw some of the hunt- ers reading at the roadhouse. I need to learn. Know your enemy. And I started digging around libraries. God forgive me. But me. And so I do. I reach out. When I wake up, sweating and pant- ing. I swear there is something there. I can feel it, hovering over me, over my boys. December I actually fell asleep last night. Feeling that presence again.

But then I remembered. Leaped out at me. Like someone was controlling it. Other hunters have seen things. A guy named Frank Gutierrez told me with a straight face that Route is thick with devil dogs. Been reading about black dogs. Black Shuck. Also known as barghest, as a death omen. Sometimes they have a headless woman with them, or are headless.

To see them means you will have a death in the family. Woke up in a cold sweat and real- ized it was Christmas. Christmas with- out my wife seems unreal. Our celebration was clumsy. My attempt to bring back some normalcy. Mary will never see Dean hit a home run.

What a Christmas present, huh? December Back at the roadhouse. And I need a place where I can learn what hunters do. The only holiday spirit I have is bloodlust.

I want to kill. The last time I remember feel- ing like this was Vietnam. But I think we can stay here for a while to get our feet on the ground. What do I say to him? How old does he have to be before I tell him the truth? Mary loved this time of year; she loved the idea of a fresh start for everyone.

She always made a resolution, one a year, and unlike most people, she kept hers. And every year she tried to talk me into making one, but I could never see the point. I wish I could have seen her diary. Maybe it would help me remember her. Maybe it would clue me in to some of her secrets. Keep your stories, your life, from dying. God I wish the boys could have known Mary longer.

Anything could happen. Maybe a place that has half-day kindergarten. Maybe that I could do. I know I should. I can see it already. We spent his birthday in the mountains, because I had to meet a guy named Daniel Elkins. The hunter culture is weird about how it breaks in new blood. Everyone you meet says you should go meet someone else, and learn some- thing else, and every time you meet someone else they take you out to hunt their favorite kind of monster.

So I copied this from a book called the Harleian Miscellany: We must not omit Observing here, that our Landlord seems to pay some regard to what Baron Valvasor has related of the Vampyres, said to infest some Parts of this Country. These Vampyres are supposed to be the Bodies of deceased Persons, animated by evil Spirits, which come out of the Graves, in the Night-time, suck the Blood of many of the Living, and thereby destroy them.

Vampires, four hundred years ago. There are other records, even older. Peter Plogojewitz, the Shoemaker of Silesia. May This would have been our sixth anniversary. Six is iron. Life is tough, kid. Do I sound like a proud dad? No roof, but you can stand inside it in a thunderstorm and not get wet. Rain will not fall on it. A crucifix still hangs on the wall, and it turns upside down when you approach.

He is vsiting i a year, i the l born of a human witch and grave of one of his chidren, dead after a few days. Another ghost, a coed suicide, haunts the basement of Pocahontas Hall. Hiawatha Hall full of bad echoes, the sorrow and pain of generations of abused children.

How many of them ded? Everyone agrees that you have to burn them to make sure they stay dead. Mary, I promised last year that I would avenge you. I promise again. Not the worst stuff, but enough so he knows that there are things that go bump in the night. Scandinavian child spirit, also called utburd. Typically l or chidren the souls of murdered chidren, l who ded i unbaptized.

They will ride travelers at night and demand to be taken to a graveyard so they can rest, but they get heavier and heavier as the graveyard gets closer, until the person carrying them is drveni under the earth by their weight. Generally they haunt the location where they were abandoned, but folklore also notes their presence in the dwellings of those who killed them—usually a family member.

If their remains can be located and buried in hallowed ground, they will disappear. May 2: Sammy is two today. Still never seen a vampire, but Elkins is such a hermit that because I talk to him, other hunters are starting to ask me to pick his brain for them.

They can go outside. They need blood to survive, and prefer human blood, but can survive on other mammals if there are no humans around. The only way to be sure of killing them is beheading—although the blood of a dead man is like poison to them. He gave me a copy of this article, in case it was ever useful. Wool and copper. T here lived at Baghdad an aged merchant who had grown wealthy in his business, and who had an only son to whom he was tenderly attached.

He resolved to marry him to the daughter of another merchant, a girl of consider- able fortune, but without any personal attractions. Instead, however, of doing this, he fell in love with another girl, the daughter of a sage, and he gave his father no peace till he consented to the mar- riage with the object of his affections.

The old man stood out as long as he could, but finding that his son was bent on acquiring the hand of the fair Nadilla, and was equally resolute not to accept the rich and ugly lady, he did what most fathers, under such circumstances, are constrained to do, he acquiesced. The wedding took place with great pomp and cer- emony, and a happy honeymoon ensued, which might have been happier but for one little circumstance which led to very serious consequences. Abul-Hassan noticed that his bride quitted the nuptial couch as soon as she thought her husband was asleep, and did not return to it, till an hour before dawn.

Filled with curiosity, Hassan one night feigned sleep, and saw his wife rise and leave the room as usual. He fol- lowed cautiously, and saw her enter a cemetery. By the strag- gling moonbeams he beheld her go into a tomb; he stepped in after her. A party of ghouls were assembled with the spoils of the graves they had violated, and were feasting on the flesh of the long-buried corpses.

His own wife, who, by the way, never touched supper at home, played no inconsiderable part in the hideous banquet. As soon as he could safely escape, Abul-Hassan stole back to his bed. At mid- night she rose, fell on her husband with her nails and teeth, tore his throat, and having opened a vein, attempted to suck his blood; but Abul-Hassan springing to his feet threw her down, and with a blow killed her.

She was buried the next day. T Three days after, at midnight, she reappeared, attacked her hu husband again, and again attempted to suck his blood. He fled from her, and on the morrow opened her tomb, burned her to ashes, and cast them into the Tigris. Or try, anyway. I felt normal again while I was taking Dean to school. Sammy wants to be in school too.

Three years seems like forever. November 2: Mary has been dead for two years. Already these are starting to seem like an everyday chore to me. End of story. Dean saw something on my face, or maybe it was just that he knew what day it is. My drill sergeant would have taken him over me in a second. Times like this, I sure am proud of my boy.

Pliny the Younger, letter to Sura: There was at Athens a large and roomy house, which had a bad name, so that no one could live there. The distressed occupants meanwhile passed their wakeful nights under the most dreadful terrors imaginable. This, as it broke their rest, ruined their health, and brought on distempers, their terror grew upon them, and death ensued. Even in the daytime, though the spirit did not appear, yet the impression remained so strong upon their imaginations that it still seemed before their eyes, and kept them in per- petual alarm.

Consequently the house was at length deserted, as being deemed absolutely uninhabitable; so that it was now entirely abandoned to the ghost. It happened that Athenodorus the philos- opher came to Athens at this time, and, reading the bill, enquired the price. The extraordinary cheapness raised his suspicion; nevertheless, when he heard the whole story, he was so far from being discouraged that he was more strongly inclined to hire it, and, in short, actually did so.

When it grew toward evening, he ordered a couch to be prepared for him in the front part of the house, and, after calling for a light, together with his pencil and tablets, directed all his people to retire.

But that his mind might not, for want of employment, be open to the vain terrors of imagi- nary noises and spirits, he applied himself to writing with the utmost attention. The noise increased and advanced nearer, till it seemed at the door, and at last in the chamber.

Athenodo- rus in reply made a sign with his hand that it should wait a little, and threw his eyes again upon his pa- pers; the ghost then rattled its chains over the head of the philosopher, who looked upon this, and seeing it beckoning as before, immediately arose, and, light in hand, followed it.

Atheno- dorus, being thus deserted, made a mark with some grass and leaves on the spot where the spirit left him. The next day he gave information to the magistrates, and advised them to order that spot to be dug up. The bones be- ing collected together were publicly buried, and thus after the ghost was appeased by the proper ceremo- nies, the house was haunted no more.

January For his seventh birthday, I took Dean shooting again. I let him shoot the Browning, but I steadied his hands. Sammy wanted me to help him make Dean a card.

It was like a normal day, like we were a normal family with a mom who was off shopping or at work or something. Instead of dead. That illu- sion never lasts. The wicked Utukku who slays man alive on the plain. The Lamme Lamashtu , the Lammea Labasu , who cause disease in the body. They have come nigh unto a suffering man on the outside.

They have brought about a painful malady in his body. An evil goblin they have placed in his body. An evil bane has come into his body. Evil poison they have placed in his body. An evil malediction has come into his parts. Evil and trouble they have placed in his body. Poison and taint have come into his body. They have produced evil. Evil being, evil face, evil mouth, evil tongue. Sorcery, venom, slaver, wicked machinations, Which are produced in the body of the sick man.

But I made a mistake, and Bill died. But odd things happened there. Four kids in three years, from —, vanish without a trace.

Other people see things. No one will talk about it. Bill was sure that some- thing had come up through the canyon thirty years ago, and was about to again. Some kind of hellspawn. So we went there to catch it in the act and take care of it. That came from somewhere. Was it a demon? How would you know? This is how Bill died. Dark brown, stinking of sulfur. Psalm He used charcoal to draw the trap on the wall of the spillway around the sulfur, and then I laid it out on the ground in front of the tunnel, using salt.

Kosher salt, no added iodides. Bill said this was important. He started watching the sky as the sun set. I looked up with him, but the stars just looked like stars to me. I have so much to learn. There I was in Pasadena, the boys back at the roadhouse. I was being a hunter. I was hunting. And while I looked up at the sky, I made a simple mistake. Just a little. But enough that when something came out of the mouth of the tunnel, nothing stopped it.

He started jerk- in like a condemned man in the ing e electric chair, and two voices were coming out of his mouth. One was the thing, the hellspawn. It was the sound cancer would make if it could talk. And Bill, he kept saying over and over again, John, shoot me, shoot me, John. So I did. It was the worst mistake I ever made. It was careless and stupid and it got a good man killed.

And Jo, poor Jo. How am I going to tell her? It was over in less than a minute, Bill Harvelle dead and me standing there with a gun in my hand listening to the echo of the gunshots in the hills and the echo of that awful hellspawn voice in my head. And to the end, Bill was teaching me. He saved my life even though I took his. Sammy is three years old today. We celebrated with an ice-cream cake. He was still wearing most of it when he fell asleep.

The room only has one bed. May This would have been our eighth anniversary. Eight is bronze. September 5: Dean started second grade. I watch him like a hawk. God, I love that kid. I have the days with Sammy while Dean is learning whatever kids learn in second grade. For him, Mary is a word.

How could he, really? October I saw an exorcism today. Or something that looked like an exorcism. According to Jim, there really are demons. From Hell? Jim knows I have the journal. But he wants me to copy the whole thing just in case. The Rituale Romanum was widely used in the mid- to late 13th century in most of eastern Europe until the church banned its use in the beginning of the 14th century.

Initial studies indicate that this anti-curse was particularly helpful in ridding the individual of unwanted guests. The second half of the ritual banishes the spirit back from whence it came.

Repeat the incantation as follows: 1. Regna Terrae, cantate deo, psallite domino, qui vehitur per calus caelos antiquos! Ecce, edit vocem suam, vocem potentem: Akinoscite potentiam dei! Timendus est dues e sancto suo, dues Israel; ipse potentiam datet robur populo suo benedictus dues. Gloria Patri. Great care must be taken in performing the second part of the ritual.

The demon upon expulsion can become very powerful without the need of a host. Beware that the spirit can enter a host through any opening in the host. Keep your eyes open and mouth shut. November 2: Mary has been dead for three years.

But what else could I do? Another promise. And kill it. Tracked down the complete Rituale Romanum, the ver- sion the exorcists like to use when they have plenty of time. Mihi auxilium praestare igneris. Per eumdem Dominum. Ipse tibi imperat, qui te de supernis caelorum in inferiora terrae demergi praecepit. Ipse tibi imperat, qui mari, ventis, et tempestatibus impers- vit. Christum Dominum vias tuas perdere?

Per omnia saecula saeculorum. Tu pectoris hujus interna custo- dias. Tu viscera regas. In anima adversatricis potestatis tentamenta evanescant. Per Dominum. Cede igitur, cede non mihi, sed ministro Christi. Illius enim te urget potestas, qui te Cruci suae subjugavit. Illius brachium contremisce, qui devictis gemitibus inferni, animas ad lucem perduxit.

Sit tibi terror corpus hominis in pectore , sit tibi formido imago Dei in fronte. Non resistas, nec moreris dis- cedere ab homine isto, quoniam complacuit Christo in homine habitare. Et ne contemnendum putes, dum me peccatorem nimis esse cognoscis. Imperat tibi Deus. Imperat tibi sacramentum Crucis. Imperat tibi Martyrum san- guis, Imperat tibi contentia Confessorum. Exi ergo, transgressor. Exi, seducor, plene omni dolo et fallacia, virtutis inimice, innocentium persecutor.

Sed quid truculente reniteris? Quid temera- rie detrectas? Reus es omnipotenti Deo, cujus stat- uta transgressus es. Reus es humano generi, cui tuis per- suasionibus mortis venenum propinasti. Imperat tibi Verbum caro factum. Imperat tibi natus ex Virgine. Imperat tibi Jesus Nazarenus, qui te, cum disciplulos ejus con- temneres, elisum atque prostratum exire praecepit ab homine: quo praesente, cum te ab homine serparasset, nec porcorum gregem ingredi praesumebas.

Recede ergo nunc adjuratus in nomine ejus ab homine, quem ipse plasmavit. Durum est tibi velle resistere. Durum est tibi contra stimulum calcitrare, Quia quanto tar- dius exis, tanto magis tibi supplicium crescit, quia non homines contemnis, sed illum, qui dominatur vivorum et mortuorum, qui venturus est judicare vivos et mor- tuos, et saeculum per ignem.

Per Christum Dominum Nostrum. Cede ergo Deo qui te, et malitiam tuam in Pharaone, et in exercitu ejus per Moysen servum suum in abysseum demersit.

Cede Deo qui te in Juda Iscariote proditore damnavit. Ille enim te divinis verberibus tangit, in cujus conspectu cum tuis legionibus tremens et clamans dixisti; quid nobis et tibi, Jesu, Fili Dei altissimi?

Venisti huc ante tempus torquere nos? Tibi enim, impie, et angelis tuis vermes erunt, qui numquam morientur. Exi ergo, impie, exi, scelerate, exi cum omni fallacia tua: quia hominem templum suum esse voluit Deus. Sed quid diutius moraris hic? Da locum Domino Jesu Christo, qui pro homine sanguinem suum sacratissimum fudit. Da locum Spiritui Sancto, qui per beatum Apostolum suum Petrum te manifeste stravit in Simone mago; qui fallaciam tuam in Anania et Saphira condemnavit; qui te in Herode rege hon- orem Deo non dante percussit; qui te in mago Elyma per Apostolum suum Paulum caecitatis caligine per- didit, et per eumden de Pythonissa verbo imperans exire praecepit.

Discede ergo nunc, discede, seduc- tor. Tibi eremus sedes est. Tibi habitatio serpens est: humiliare, et prosternere. Jam non est differendi tempus. Si enim hominem fe- felleris, Deum non poteris irridere. Ille te ejicit, cujus oculis nihil occultum est.

Ille te expellit, cujus virtuti universa subjecta sunt. Ille te execludit, qui tibi, et an- gelis tuis praeparavit aeternam gehennam; de cujus ore exibit gladius acutus: qui venturus est judicare vivos et mortuos, et saeculum per ignem. January Dean turns eight today. Second grade is treating him well. I hope we can stay. The mountains are a good place to spend early May.

I had to pull Dean out of school when I got a note from Ellen that someone passing through the roadhouse had just exorcised a demon that knew where we were. The word is easy to throw around.

One, the enemy knows where we are. Dean understands. L ike any kid his age. It was in Greektow wn, n, Detroit. Sometimes appears as human,man, other times as a sort of werewolf although in some versions, the vrykolakas is destroyed by being dug up and eateenn by a wolf.

Can drain the life force of mara. Much survving overlap between vrykolakas lore and that of vampires. Not sure if one is a subspecies of the other, or if confusion in i the lore has obscured the real dfferences.

Haunt i and creaton cemeteres i grounds. Will attack in cemeteres i ; can also drive people mad. Will kill children, possibly to eat, and are known to induce miscarrages. Best idea is to get on wthi the funeral rtes i and send them on their way. May This would have been our ninth anniversary. How is six years iron and nine pottery?

I wonder if we would have had more children. Mary talked about a girl sometimes. I would have liked having a daughter. A part of me wonders how the kid deals with it. But sons have to be soldiers. And soldiers adapt. July From the mouths of babes. I told him some of my story, and he agreed to raise a manitou and let me ask it some questions. We went down into the basement of his house and he started getting the divination ready.

The room got more smoky than it seems like it should have. The manitou appeared, and I got right to the point. I asked it who or what killed Mary. And then things went wrong. But whatever happened, it turned into something physical and real. Like a bear, kind of. And before I could stop it, it killed Fowler. It almost killed me too, but I fought it.

I got the hell out of there and picked up the boys. Sammy was asleep the whole time. Not that he asked the question, or that he was right, but that he had a better sense of right and wrong than I did. He was prowling around the edges of a Cub Scout campout in a place called Bradbury Mountain.

I came this close to going completely off the rails. I almost let this quest overwhelm what I know is right, and a bunch of kids almost died because of it. A hunter never passes up a hunt, and a hunter never bails out on a hunt. That will never happen again.

The Mqmaq i chenoo is a winter sspirit pirit with a heart of ice, created from a human, which wants to kill those it loves. In the perod i of transformation, the personperson who is becoming a chenoo eats snow and refuses other food.

He will be ill--tempered tempered and angry. After the transfoormation, i , rmaton the chenoo will attack and kill other members of the tribe—or anyone one else. If it is killed, the body must be completely burned, or else the the smallest part of it can be useedd to create another chenoo. Muchh in common with the wendigo legends found farther west. But when I went back to his house, I took a book. November 2: Mary has been dead for four years.

Dean asked me today what she looked like. He never talks about her on any other day but this one. I told him that she was beautiful and kind and she loved him and Sammy more than anything in the world. He calls himself the New Kid all the time. Who knows how many more? The word "salvaton" i originates from the use of salt in sealing covenants. Jews in the Temple offered salt, still use it in Sabbath rtual i s. Leviticus 2: "And every oblatoni of thy meat offering shalt thou season wth i salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: wth i all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

In I Kings, Elisha purifies a spring wth i salt. Jesus coined the phrase "salt of the earth" for apostles, because of their commitment. Salt used in some Catholic consecration rituals. Spilled salt shoudl never be picked up; the bad luck is balanced by throwng i salt over the shouder l at the demons who approach because of the spill.

Buddhist tradition holds that salt repels all evil spirts. Salt used to purfyi in Shinto and other traditions; Shinto myth says frst i landmass, Onogoro Shima, arose when salt separated from a wordl ocean. Native American i who could eat salt.

Hopi tribes in the Southwest restrcted legends about the preciousness of salt hedl that location of salt deposits—hard to get to, dangerous to work—was a punishment from the Warrior Twins. Practical uses: a line of salt is a barrier no spirit can cross. Mediums use lines to constrain movements of summoned i In Japanese folklore, ghosts are packed in jars full spirts. A double-barrel load of rock salt will dispel the ectoplasmic manifestation of a spirit.

When destroying a spirit permanently, salt the remains or focus of the haunting before burning. In Norse myth, ancestor of the gods was born from a salt lick. Dark side of salt: salt the earth after a battle so that nothing will grow, no one will live there. Can be reversed to a symbol of barrenness. Myth among Carbbean i i I in slaves that Afrcans—gbo, particular—can fyl because they ddi not eat salt in their native country.

Thank God. If he is weak like that again, my boys will die. Reminder: Tell Jim about the Hausa,a, an African tribe whose witches keeep ep magical stones in their stomachs. Also, they can turn into dogs. Anotther her African witch, sukuyadyo or obayiffo,o, bind victims magically and drain their blood or life force.

Sukuyadyo can change their skins skins, hiding their real skin under a pot or mortar in their house and taking on the appearance of another. Related to skinwalker, ala so variations on medieval European vampire legends. Obayifo transformed into a ball of ligh ght to drain life force. Time for Sammy to learn how to rrea read. Jiangshi: "Hopping corpse. Never seen one. May This would have been our tenth anniversary. Around the permeter i of the cloth, place black and white candles, alternating and equal in number.

When all of the candles are lit, recite the following: Amate spiritus obscure, te quaerimus. Te oramus, nobiscum colloquere, apud nos circita.

At the fnish i of the incantation, pinch a tny i amount of frankincense, sandalwood, or cinnamon powder over one l of the candle fames. Using a wheeled table that moved toward signs set up in a rough circle, Pythagoras and his student Philolaus interpreted the motions as spirit signals.

Here Perimedes and Eurylochus held the victims, while I drew my sword and dug the trench a cubit each way. Adapted to Greek necromancy. A spirit projection of the necromancer would travel to the underwordl to speak with the dead.

Katadesmoi: A Greek curse inscribed on a lead tablet usu- ally. A spirit is summoned and bound to the tablet to make sure the curse is effective.

Term also used for the summoning and binding of a spirit to a task. Katadesmoi buredi in a cemetery or sacred place to make them more effective. Necromantic conjuration from Reginadl Scot, Dscoverie i of Witchcraft. Seals of the Earth necessary to bring the spirit. And let no persons see thy doings, but thy fellow. Arise N. I conjure thee spirit N. And I will sweare to thee on oth, by the perill of my soule, that if thou wilt come to me, and appeare to me this night, and shew me true visions in this christall stone, and fetch me the fairie Sibylia, that I may talke with hir visiblie, and she may come before me, as the conjuration leadeth: and in so doing, I will give thee an almesse deed, and praie for thee N.

Sibly, necromantic conjuration. At the tomb or grave, after inscribing the protective circle: "By the virtue of the holy resurrection, and the torments of the damned, I conjure and exorcise thee, spirit of N. Arise, arise, arise, I chargege and command thee. How is he paying for it? If that makes him feel more at home in his world. December A variation, supposed to be for summoning and speaking to angels. Not even the ones who have seen demons. A crazy hunter told me a couple of years ago that Reagan was an avatar of the Antichrist because each of his names has six letters: Ronald Wilson Reagan.

Reagan also lived at St. Cloud Road. Possible that original number of the Beast was This is i St. Jerome said attested to in Codex Ephraimi Rescrptus.

Fear of the number hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia. Hound sightngs? Wherever we are. Quiet, watchful. I got Sammy and Dean into a day camp not too far from Blue Earth, so I could consult with Pastor Jim about a few things while the boys got to be regular kids for a while. Things went bad. I spent a couple of days looking into it, and ran across a Cree legend about humanoid tricksters called mannegishi. So what was it? So I kept my head and got Jim to put me in touch with a Cree medicine man who lived over in South Dakota.

I gave him a ride back to Blue Blue Earth and we went down to the rapids thhat at night now two days ago. Some day camp, wrecking picto- graphs so they can expand their boat launch.

The boys are going someplace else next week, for as long as we can stay. For the moment, the battle pauses. Russian male water spirit, sometimes said to be a shape-shifter but more often appears as an old man, skin freckled with scales, a green beard tangled with muck and underwater plants. May live in whirlpools. Likes butter and tobacco. Also likes the rusalka, and often either marries one or takes several as servants or concubines. Rusalki are spirits of women who are murdered or die by suicide in water— sometimes children who were drowned by their mothers.

See Woman in White. Lore sometimes suggest stss vampiric qualities. Some rusallkiki will vanish if their deaths arree avenged. Can also be dispelled if kept out of water long enough foorr her hair to dry completely. Thee child versions can be dispelledd by baptism with holy water. Have heard of vodyanoy from hunters in Alaska. Shoshone legends from Wyoming tell of Water Ghost Woman, who beguiles hunters and travelers with sexuual al attraction, also shoots them with spirit arrows.

The Germanic Nix combines attributes of vodyyanoyanoy and andsome, rusalka. In human form, the Nix is usually male and handsome, and dangerous to unmarried women and unbaptized children. Most active at summer and winter solstice Christianized ver- sions of the legend say Christmas Eve. Plays music to beguile its target. Also an omen of drowning—similar to banshee— can be heard screaming from the water, signaling that someone is going to drown there.

Like vodyanoy, the Nix likes tobacco, and also vodka. That was a show, a demon dog tangling with a water spirit. The Shuck won, and I sent it back to Hell for its trouble. The minute it does, it drags the rider in and devours him, leaving only the liver.

That one took human form, too, and looked like a handsome young man who always had weeds in his hair. I was lucky to get out with my liver. Also have heard from other hunters about a haunted old racetrack in Goshen, NY.

A horse and rider who drowned right after the turn of the century come back and ride across the lake, sometimes chasing or threatening people in the area. November 2: Mary has been dead for six years. Today I overheard the boys talking about her, about her death. Like me. And what do I do? They were talking to each other. It kills me every day.

Then all bets are off. He asked for his own gun, and I got him one. A Seecamp LWS. May 2: Sammy is seven today. May This would have been our twelfth anniversary. The magician, dressed like a man, sat wth i veiled head before a taper, in her rght i hand a sheaf of grass cut square at top and bottom. This sheaf she took convulsively. The magician, now supposed to be in a enterng trance, bowed to the taper "and to each male member of the reigning family present"!

Conducted back to bed, His Highness fell later into a swoon attributed to possession by those spirts! After an invocation the magician bathed himself in incense, suffered spasmodic convulsions, spoke a spirit language, became possessed, sat with shrouded head, lit tapers on the edges of three jars of water, and rubbed the patent i wth i a bezoar stone. Scattering handfuls of charmed rce i round the jars, he put into them improvised bouquets of areca-palm blossom, and plunged his dagger into each bouquet to dspel i lurking spirtsi of evil.

Next he was possessed by the tiger-spirit, scratched, growled, and licked the naked body of the patient. He drew blood from his own arm with the point of his dagger and fenced with his invisible spirit foe. Once more he stroked the patient with the sheaf of blossom and with his hands. Again he stabbed the bouquets, stroked the patient, and after lying still for an interval recovered consciousness.

November 2: Mary has been dead for seven years. Term for god or entity responsible for guiding souls to the afterlife. In Greece, Hermes. In Norse myth, the Valkyries. In Egypt, Anubis. Voodoo traditions, going back to their African roots, offer the Ghede. Irish, Ankou. In most shamanic traditions, the shaman is a sort of psychopomp both at the beginning of life and at the end.

He or she was present at birth to usher the child into the world, j y and present at death to see the soul on its journey. Medieval legends of the scythe-bearing Grim Grim Reaper perhaps connected to practice in some parts of Europe whereby the deead ad were stabbed or buried with sickles. TThehe real reapers are purely psychic entitiess,, with power over time and perception.

They can change the way a human sees his surroundings, and change their own appearance, usually to ease the transition from life into death. Black dogs are also psychopomps sometimes. Buried in the foundations of churches to guard and protect the gates between here and the afterlife.

December Battled a nasty little bugger today. Kicked the beast back to wherever it came from. Just trying to do this without you is hard enough, Mary. The Beast of Bray Road. Where do these black dogs come aid from? Agrippa had a black dog, said to be his familiar—he freed it fromm his deathbed and it trotted outt-- side, never to be seen again. If youu can believe anything anyone says about Agrippa. Even Churchilll called his depression his blackk dog. What was really getting to him?

He maybe needed a hunter around. Some Christmas. Mooney, Sacred Formulas of the Cherokee: When the shaman wishes to destroy the life of an- other, either for his own purposes or for hire, he con- ceals himself near the trail along which the victim is likely to pass.

The same idea in regard to spittle is found in European folk medicine. He also puts into the tube seven earthworms beaten into a paste, and several splinters from a tree which has been struck by lightning. The idea in regard to the worms is not quite clear, but it may be that they are expected to devour the soul of the victim, as earthworms are supposed to feed upon dead bodies, or perhaps it is thought that from their burrowing habits they may serve to hollow out a grave for the soul under the earth, the quarter to which the shaman consigns it.

In other similar cer- emonies the dirt-dauber wasp or the stinging ant is buried in the same manner in order that it may kill the soul, as these are said to kill other more power- ful insects by their poisonous sting or bite.

The wood of a tree struck by lightning is also a potent spell for both good and evil and is used in many formulas of various kinds. At its base he digs a hole, in the bottom of which he puts a large yellow stone slab. The shaman and his em- ployer fast until after the ceremony. If the ceremony has been properly carried out, the victim becomes blue, that is, he feels the effects in himself at once, and, unless he employs the coun- tercharms of some more powerful shaman, his soul begins to shrivel up and dwindle, and within seven days he is dead.

January 3: Something new yesterday. Sexually predatory, voracious demons. They can change their appear- ance, and they all transformed to look like Mary at one point. God help me, I was weak. Or not believe, really. I agreed to their deception. All of them. Maybe New Mexico next, so we would be close to Daniel. Judeo-Christian versions have them as female demons who harvest semen that incubi male version then use to impregnate women with chil- dren who are more readily possessed by demons—or who are more likely to become witches.

Birth defects were also said to be the result of incubi. A parallel European tradition, of the night-mare, is a creature which rides the sleeper, partially suf- focating him and at the same time causing sexual dreams. Naamah was regarded as the inventor of divination, and in some traditions as a patron spirit of music.

In certain strains of Hebrew myth, incubi and succubi are generally called lilin and lilith. They are said to be the children of Lilith, and to die at a rate of one hundred per day because she would not come back to Adam.

Men become victims of the lilith by being ridden at night, the seed being used to create more demonic children. An amulet inscribed with the initials of the three Magi— Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar—is said to protect children from lilin and lilith.

Other traditions include Greek empusa, which attacked travelers but also drained their life force through intercourse, and Turkish Al Basti which also kidnaps horses.

The succubi I killed said something about having plans for the Winchesters. Next week, the Winchesters are going to be residents of Albuquerque. March In the last week, Sammy has played a sunbeam in the school play and I killed a demon inhabiting the body of an old woman.

It knew something about the succubi, I think.