The chain spirit

The chain spirit Hey Alicia called my brother jack. He said do you know we are planning a trip to Wayynad which is in Kerala tomorrow and you know where we are going to stay? In a bungalow’. I was surprised to hear that because I was a planning to perform a puppet show with my toy named snappy. We packed our clothes along with my toy snappy.

I was not able to sleep that night because I was throughout thinking of my puppet show with snappy. The next day me and my brother along without parents Richard and the train. I was really worried about this journey as yesterday in the TV news I saw that there was a land slide on the way to our place and and trains were delayed 24 hours. We reached Kozhikode finally and decided to go by car to Wayynad. We reached wayyand which is more like a small village.

When we were going towards the bungalow, I saw an old banyan tree near to an old temple and the said tree almost cover the temple.

When I took a look at the driver to ask about the said banyan tree he told a word’ BEWARE ’his sound shivered my body from toe to head.

It was bit scary but I did not mind him. We reached the bungalow and kept our bags on the table. We took a quick nap when I heard some noises upstairs though there was no one there I did not mind it and thought there would be some rats. In the evening I went up to investigate wherefrom the noise came and found the room locked. I told this aspect to my brother. We decided to further examine and ponder the matter next day because the journey in the car was too tiresome and suffocating, as we had to take so many hairpin curves on the way, from the edge of hills. The next day me, my doll and my brother went out to the temple. Jack came slowly behind me but I

rushed into the temple and opened the door. I opened it and kept snappy on a rock after this I went inside the temple. After sometime jack came exhausted and holded on to a root of the banyan tree that was covering the temple and suddenly the root came off. It was a chain, he did not know the seriousness of it so he threw it on to snappy. It was a chain tree. These are no ordinary trees and such trees are grown and used to capture spirits which will harm human being.

The spirits are captured in these chain trees and if the chains are disturbed and be thrown to something the spirit enters that object.

Now snappy was no more an ordinary toy. Snappy has become a spirit toy. But remember Alicia and jack did not know this. The next day Alicia, Jack and snappy went to explore the room. When I was going to open the door I saw a lock. I was looking at the lock when my mom called me for breakfast. I threw Snappy on the floor and we ran downstairs to eat our breakfast. When we completed the breakfast and when we went up to upstairs, the lock was open and snappy was sitting on a chair. It was quite creepy and I was scared. I told my brother to take snappy and keep him down. He did as I said. When he went down I entered the room. To see what was the noise coming as I was exploring the room, I saw a trunk I lifted it up and it was quite heavy. I opened it and found a book in which something was written in it and that too in some ancient language. While I was looking at the book my brother came. She told him everything about the book to him. They were scared and decided that they would go down to the temple at night and ask someone about it. This was their chance to know the secret of this bungalow. They went to the temple and found an old priest there. They showed the book to the priest and he translated it to English. The priest said ‘if spirits roam and harm you

then the holy priest will help you to capture the spirit.’ When he finished reading and closed the book. Then he was thinking something and told us ‘somebody has pulled the chain’. Jack replied ‘that chain I pulled it by mistake.’ I said ooh then where is it I threw it but I do not remember where.’ I said to the priest that’ what is the importance of a chain’ he said’ these chains contain spirit and can transform into any object and so we have to find that object oh god today is purnima the day of full moon when spirits get powers so we have to capture the ghost before moon comes out.’ They ran to the banyan tree and started looking for the chain. Then I heard someone laugh so I looked up and it was snappy with a knife. He said no, one can help you now and jumped down. Jack found the chain and seeing this snappy ran towards him suddenly the priest came in the middle to help jack but threw him aside with great force. While the priest was taking his last few breath he gave me a holy water and told this will help you tie snappy to the tree. She came from behind and poured the holy water on snappy and tied him on the banyan tree and the knife in his hand fell this told us he has died. The next day when we were going back my mom asked where is snappy I and jack replied on the banyan tree.