More Short Stories by: Dr. Dennis L. Siluk, Ed.D. (2007-2016)

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Saturday, June 21, 2008

The Sacrifice (Chapter 11, to "The Last Plantation")

The Sacrifice
Chapter: 11


It has been said, and there is much truth to it I believe, what Christ has done on earth, Satan has tried to duplicated. Burgendy was around her plantation house doing her voodoo stuff with more of a dedication than she ever had, she put more vitality into it, perhaps because who could interfere now. The Child Otis Pity Wallace Washington was about 18-months old now.
The house was quiet, not many visitor came about anymore, since Frank and Wally were gone, dead, and Abby in Ozark, Alabama, Old Josh, and Amos came around now and then, but besides them, not many other folks. Minnie Mae was still working on the farm, and Burgendy had money in the back, around $40,000-dollars, Frank and Wally leaving each half of that sum to her personally, in their personal accounts at the Ritt Bank.
She prayed to Satan, and was said to dance with the demons, this was not new, just become more noticeable, and actually a little old, it was on Halloween she got what she called a vision, an awakening, a massager came to her in her bedroom, sat on her bed, told her the following (which she would repeat in court in times yet to come), “The Ten-Winged Master, wants you to make a sacrifice to him, your child, like Abram, so long ago did for God, this will prove your loyalty, and there will be a resurrection, if you follow this example.” The messenger was a henchman from hell, so he claimed.
About this time, the Abernathy family, and the Stanley family, the two families who owned the other two plantations, along the same side of the road the Wallace Plantation was, now Burgundy’s plantation, was ostracized from their gathers, their weekend get together, where once they’d played checkers with Wally and Frank, and even the Stanley’s came over. They could hear the yelping and screaming and voodoo drums at all hours of the night now. It was becoming nonsense. This sacrifice was all planned for October 31, 1962, midnight, she put the child on the living room table, Minnie Mae was in the kitchen, closed her eyes, wanted to stop her but there was no way, she was scared, and so she ran out of the house—perhaps thinking: out of sight, out of mind, cried, slipped, hit her head on a rock, fell to sleep, more like knocked out rather. And so the sacrifice proceeded as scheduled, nobody notified. No kids came for candy, none were allowed to by their parents to go near the plantation, and rightfully so, and there really were no kids about in the country side there anyhow. With no haggling, she lifted up a heavy double edged ax, and when she lowered it, the child was split into two pieces, and she danced, and danced, and tore her cloths to shreds. And of course there was no resurrection, what she had to learn the hard way, and she never did learn it, Satan is liar, as well as a deceiver. But if she got anything out of this, it was his blessings

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