Rosefield

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<October 7, 1977, Dr. R. Edwards.

The cases of sickness in the patients occurred again two days ago, during the Sunday Mass.

I had decided to allow the three girls to play again in the orchestra, since the symptoms had not occurred for days.

All three girls claimed a sudden lowering of body temperature as soon as the orchestra's performance was through and they asked the families to be taken home; one of them had further nose bleeding.

I visited all three of them on the same day, noticing a lowering of body temperature accompanied by tremor, which was followed, in evening, by fever around 39 body degrees.

The next morning none of the three had the fever no more and they appeared in good health and with too much physical energy.

Another symptom I noticed is a sudden frenzy during the day following the fact, the three patients showed hyperactivity out of the ordinary.

Further we've performed several tests on the patient with pregnancy symptoms, which brought nothing new. 

Therefore the girl has resumed her normal daily activities, although the belly's swelling, the absence of periods and the presence of breast milk persist.

Dr. Wood and I are investigating the daily life of the girls, but initially we didn't notice anything unusual. Except that Dr. Wood told me that one of the girls shared a confidence with him: she claims having noticed a sudden sexual arousal during the performance.

It is clear at this point that the illness is somehow linked to the libido.

I have arranged other visits to the patients, which apparently did not have sexual intercorse.

Further, another particular fact happened: Miss Warren had another sleepwalking case one night, but this time it is been different.

Her mother only noticed the next morning that she wasn't in her room and, looking for her outside, they finally found her asleep in a house's courtyard, where there are some statues of human size, with the features of farmhands: the girl was laying sitting with her arms around the statue shaped of a young male farmhand.

When questioned, she said she couldn't remember anything about the previous night.

The fact caused quite a indignation among the people of the village, at the point that the school's principal has requested the suspension of the three girls for a few weeks, preventing the "infection" of the others.

We are trying to find out if the girls have started others sexually provocative attitudes, such as allusive language, changes in the way of wear clothes and in the way of walk or sit or interact with male people.

I will update the diary as soon as there are news>.

<Dearest Lucy, from the last time I wrote you some things have happened.

Me, Michelle and Inez have been suspended from school... in the village everyone looks at us with suspicion, they think we are "contagious".

They also forbid the other girls to meet us.

We didn't do anything wrong, yet the only ones that still speak to us are Liam and Samuel.

My mother barely let me go out, unless it is to be visited by Dr. Wood.

The other night, while he was visiting me, he asked me weird questions ... then he checked my breath asking me to unbutton the dress; I felt his warm hands on me and I felt a strange agitation, the same that I feel when I play the violin sometimes.

The next day I kept on thinking about it and thus I decided to pretend that I was undisposed again to make me visit by him... I had a feeling of relief when he visited me, just because he had put his hands on me.

Dr. Wood is young, thirty-three years old, he has no wife and is acculturate, unlike the others of the village.

Moreover, the other night I dreamed a strange dream: I dreamed of the statue from that evening, when I walked in my sleep, the one with the farmhand's appearance, in my dream it started to move and it came to life becoming a real farmer, then he came towards me and wrapped his arms around me holding me... in that moment I woke up.

I would like to tell that to Michelle, but my mother doesn't let me to visit her... I can't stand being locked at home, without even being allowed to play.

My letters are my only distraction at the moment. I'll write to you soon.

Greetings to all of you,

Florence>.