I Need an Exorcist

[dotinthesky]

One of our guests saw a ghost outside her chalet this past weekend. She said he was a man in a suit, with hair slicked back.

My 4-year-old nephew, who lives at the entrance to our guesthouse, has also been seeing a man at night. This one sits in my brother's living room when the lights go out and waves at my nephew if he happens to wander by.

My sister-in-law tried to tell him there was nothing to be afraid of, that the man was good. But my nephew replied "no mom, he's not nice - he's worse than a bicho papão." [1]

One of our maids has heard a baby cry in our laundry room and a male voice whisper calming words to it.

The list of things that have broken or blown up by themselves these past two months is endless: my mom's car, the pool's motor, the water pump, a varanda double-glazed window, computers, laptops, cameras, fridges, washing machines, lamps, televisions, routers, even my bloody flip flops.

A few weeks ago, I had to sleep at my grandmother's house because the guesthouse was full. I had the house to myself as my grandmother prefers to sleep in the main house. (She doesn't mind spending the day alone in her house but she gets scared alone at night.)

I woke up in the early hours to the sound of someone moving cutlery, cups and plates in her kitchen. I didn't dare get up and investigate. All doors were locked from the inside in the morning.

[1] A bicho papão is a type of "monster under the bed", wheeled out to scare disobedient children.

Comments

[androktone.livejournal.com]

ooh!
One of our old houses, we were half convinced there were ghosts (despite me not believing in them, the house was cold and hostile with odd goings on and people who stayed felt "watched" and "threatened")

A friend who is into wicca suggested we make a bundle of dried sage twigs tied with string (a smudghe stick) and walked round every room singing loudly and beating pots and waving the smoke from the sage in all the dark corners, which I did with the kids.

We felt a lot better after that. Whether psychosomatic or not having a family ritual to clear the air is worth doing once everyone has started to think there are ghosts.

[picosgemeos.livejournal.com]

Over here, they´ve told me to drop coarse salt on all corners of the house, apart from the entrance. And to take pictures of my great-grandma to a ceremony, as well as clothing my mom used recently (a ceremony at a place that performs magic brought over from Africa.)

[androktone.livejournal.com]

Are you going to do it?

[picosgemeos.livejournal.com]

I wanted to... now I´m not so sure.