Night of the scorpion

The longest night ever!!

I was just remembering the memories of my childhood when ,I remembered of a night which I thought was the longest night ever.

Once in the village I lived there was a huge storm. A scorpion came into my house to seek shelter. It was really a poisonous one. It hided behind a sac of rice and after some time it stung my mother.As the news spread in the village everyone's and sat in a circle around my mother.They were very superstitious and they all started muttering some illogical things.According to them if the scorpion would move the poison in the blood would also move.So they started searching the it.But they were unsuccessful.They said that the pain and suffering would burn all her sins of previous existing birth. But my father was not a superstitious person so he started giving first aid to her. He poured some paraffin and then put a match to it.I saw the fire feeding on my mother . After 20 hours it lost its Sting and she got fine.

She got up and said only one thing,"Thanks to the scorpions that he fed on her and spared her child."