Children Now And Then!!
Then we stood where the creatures were standing during the night. Terry
started to talk: "In the year of our Lord 1397, there was a small
village here. The men were away serving their clan chief in the fight
against the English. Only women, old people and children remained here.
It was a hidden valley so they felt pretty secure. One day, it was the
day of the New Year's eve, a band of rogue warriors from England came
here. They killed the old people, then the kids in front of their
mothers, then they raped and killed the women. 32 human beings ceased to
exist within a couple of hours. They gave pardon to nobody. Then the
band of 12 warriors left again like they came without a trace. Weeks
later the men came back to their village and found everybody dead. They
were furious, desperate, many of them broke that day and never
recovered. There was no chance for them to find the murderers. So, they
buried their dead people and over the graves of them they cursed the
perpetrators. They cursed them to return to the place of their crime
every year on the same day the slaughter happened and to watch over the
graves of their victims. Their ghosts should return to this place until
the last offspring of them dies. Until their families do not exist
anymore, either. Then their deed should be redeemed." After he told his
story Terry fell silent. I was astonished: "Wow! And this is the
graveyard of the village?" "Yes, but there is not much left. The
villagers, having lost everything, went their ways and disappeared all
over Scotland." Terry explained. I looked at him and asked: "How is it,
that you know so much about this? Did you read it somewhere in a book,
Terry?" He held up a hand and replied: "I will tell you but I need to
know something, Bruce! Can you tell me how many torches the ghosts held
in their hands?" Thinking about it, I stood there. Then I remembered: "