Unseen occupants
This just a story I pass into it was in tagalong but I will
translate it in English this story doesn’t belong to me J
Every year we make it a point to visit our grandmother in
the province she is over 91 years old but still has a sharp mind and does house
hold choirs one time it was her birthday and every time she has one it was considered
a whole clan reunion.
My grandmothers’ backyard is a forest connected to the
mountains it was a big play ground for me and my cousins the adults would tell
us not to stray away from the house because it was vast and we could get lost.
They told stories of spirits and malevolent beings that reside
in the forest we often go to it and go exploring until we hear howling dogs and
the sun light descending and that was a time to go home.
One night my dad and uncle was talking to me and my cousins about
how my grandmother was very superstitious and still like to scare them with
stories and warning them if they don’t follow her rules then the spirits might mad
and do some horrible stuff.
We just shrug it off as our grandmother being a daunting
mother she was towards her children and grand children until it happened.
Every time we go into the forest our grandmother always told
us that when picking fruits in the forest we must always ask permission before
taking them as some of these fruit trees might have occupants that we don’t see.
That time we were exploring we saw a big mango tree and some
ripe mangos for the picking one of my cousins said that we should get some
mangos and return it back at grandmas remembering my grandmas word I told him
that we should first ask permission but my cousin just shrug it off as superstitious
that it wasn’t real so he climb up and began picking mangos and hitting it with
a stick till it fell after being satisfied with the mangos we had we return
home.
That night my cousin who picked the mangos suddenly got sick
getting high fever and vomiting while rash appeared on his body he was rushed
to the hospital but the doctors can’t find what was causing it so me and my
other cousins told our grandma about the mango pickings and she shook her head
and asked my uncle if maybe a albularyo(witch doctor) could be of help and because
of the worsening my uncle agreed.
Turns out according to the albularyo that while my cousin
was whacking the tree he accidentally hit one of its occupants and
that it was mad at my cousin for that so the albularyo suggested that we asked
for forgiveness buy giving offering and promising to ask first and not to do
that again and my uncle and grandma with the albularyo offered two chickens by
spreading its blood on the three and pieces of chocolate just to make amends.
After that offering the next day my cousin was feeling
better but after that event we never just shrug off our grandmother’s advices.
