Hogwarts Wizards and Pandora's Box. The Halloween Specter

Chapter 4: TORMED WITCHES. Part 1: consequence of a curse.

Morgana Lessa normally follows her lessons in the first hour.

During the second hour of class, these books are shredded and can no longer be used. Her notebooks and shoes disappear without her knowing by whom.

In the toilet she receives dirty water on her which damages her witch's dress and impregnates it with a bad smell.

She spends the afternoon in the infirmary and at night she sleeps crying on her pillow.

Meanwhile, the 1st year Gryffindor boy who cast the spell having destroyed Morgana's books has a nightmare where he is tied to a cross, birds come to tear his body to pieces with their beaks and claws, he is then sprayed with it. sea ​​water.

His cries of pain startle his comrades who awaken him by force.

Seeing that it was only a nightmare, the boy hardly falls asleep.

In full sleep, he has a nightmare again, he is tied to a cross, this time a hand tears off his skin and repeats,

"Give back what you destroyed! Request forgiveness!"

His screams wake up his comrades again who try in vain this time to wake him up.

The two girls, one in first year and one in second at Gryffindor, who threw water on Morgana also have a nightmare.

They are in a pot being cooked, while the pot is simmering, they feel their skin burnt, their body melt in the heat of the iron and the oil.

Their cries of pain startle their comrades who awaken them by force.

They are in full sweat and in tears, the nightmare seemed so real to them. They fall asleep again, with difficulty, then they have the same nightmare again, with a voice screaming at them,

"Request forgiveness!"

Their cries wake up again these comrades who try in vain this time to wake them up.

The curse cast by Daeren was in motion, concretely this curse appeals to a nightmare, considered in several popular traditions, as a creature sitting overnight on the chest of its victim, preventing him from breathing properly.

The sarramauca disturbs the sleep of its sleepers by crushing them under its weight.

The sarramauca was often invoked in the unexplained deaths of people, many of them children. It is almost certain that the symptoms felt could be as well those of a bad digestion, that of various diseases, and for many infants the suffocation caused by their own mother or their nurse, taking into account the frequent conditions of promiscuity. in past centuries.

The protection against sarramauca or its equivalents was the same as that used against witchcraft: prayers and formulas to be recited, twigs of fennel or hawthorn, etc.

But here none of these students had that. They suffered both physically and internally.

At the first light of day, the sarramauca disappears, only to return at night.

The next day one of the girls brought Morgana's shoes and notebooks back and apologized for what she had done the day before.

In her kindness Morgana agreed and the curse was lifted for this girl.

The other two, because of bad sleep, sleep when there is an opportunity. Unfortunately, the nightmare left by the sarramauca awaited them.

Again, they are tortured.

They are forced to wake up thanks to their comrade, but when they wake up, they vomit and are greatly weakened.

They are transported to the infirmary.