warlock (standard:horror, 1599 words)
Author: witch	Added: Oct 29 2002	Views/Reads: 3207/2386	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
about a warlock who has been keeping it a secret and finally tells someone and is hung

In a little town called Salem in the year 1692 there was a man named
Jebidiah, he was a very simple man he worked on shoes and his story is 
really crazy.  You see it was a really long time ago.... he was living 
two seperate lives one as a cobbler and the other as a warlock.  All 
was going well until one night Jebidiah went crazy.  Nobody knew about 
him until that day he hid it from everybody but he decided that 
everybody should know but what a big mistake that was. 

The night when he told was the worst night of his life..and his last. 
He went to one of the the town's shop owners. 

" Thomas, I have to tell you something and please don't get upset with
me," Jebidiah said. 

Thomas replied sarcastically, " Well out with it then come on tell me!" 

" I am coming to you with this rather interesting news because you are
the only one in this town who would understand why I kept it a secret, 
please Thomas promise you will stay calm," Jebidiah had said. 

" I am getting rather impatient with you right now if you do not tell me
right this minute I am going to ask you to leave my shop at once, so 
get on with it already!" Thomas yelled. 

Jebidiah replied, " Alright I will, I am a warlock, please don't be
scared." 

" Scared dear boy oh no I just think that you are totally crazy where
did you come up with such an obsene story?" Thomas remarked. 

" Sir Thomas I am not lying I am telling you the truth please believe
me, I would never lie to you!" replied Jebidiah. 

"Then if you are telling the truth you know what would happen to you,
the same that happened to those filthy witches.  You expect me to stay 
calm with this nonsense.  Well Jebidiah I advise you run and don't turn 
back. If I find you in this town tomorrow morning I will have every 
person in this town searching for you so help me god.  When we find you 
we will hang you just like the others!" screamed Thomas. " Now go and 
be this as it may this is a warning Jebidiah don't come back if you 
want to live!" 

Jebidiah ran as fast as he could to his little shack in the woods, he
didn't want to believe what Thomas had said but something in his mind 
told him that Thomas was serious about what he said and he meant every 
word... but Jed did not leave the town he stayed in his shack at the 
edge of the woods.  Jebidiah didn't  want to be hung but if the 
townspeople found out,he would be hung and he didn't want to take any 
chances so he sat all alone up all night in the dark thinking about the 
day to come. 

The next day the townspeople got together to find Jebidiah.. they looked
everywhere for him but could not find him anywhere, they looked in his 
store and he wasn't there they even looked under the bridge and no sign 
of him there.. at the end of the day they decided to call it a night 
and start at dawn and look again Thomas knew he didn't leave he could 
feel it, he knew something was up with Jebidiah since the beginning he 
always had this strange feeling whenever Jed was around him but until 
now he didn't know what it was. 

" Well men lets go home to our families and sit with them, we will start
out again at dawn so get well rested," said Thomas. 

All the townsmen went home to there families dined and then went off to
sleep, that night Jebidiah had come to town to fetch him some water and 
some food, hoping nobody was up at that hour, to his surprise there was 
a boy standing near the town's well.. Jebidiah tried to sneak by 
quitley but the boy heard him and turned to face Jebidiah... the boy 
said, " Mister what are you doing here my father said that you are not 
welcome in this town anymore so you should leave right now before I 
tell father." 

" Please boy do not tell I am only here to fetch myself some water and
some food, I mean you no harm please be still don't breath a word to a 
soul... I will not come during the day but only at night to get food 


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