Something Scary Vol. 1

Chapter 4: The Duwende

So, this is a story that my aunt told me that happened to her when she was in her mid twenties. She was living in the Philippines at the time and she had a niece who was just finishing high school.

So one day, the high school called her and said, "You need to get over here right now. Your niece is acting really weird..."  And my aunt had no idea what they where talking about.

So when she got to the school her niece was sitting on a chair and she looked really out of it. If anyone tried to touch her, she would violently hit their hand away and yell at them in a cold, deep voice that clearly wasn't hers.

So, they had no idea what to do so they called the sherif of the town to know if he had any ideas. So the sherif got there and it was pretty clear to him that she was probably, possessed, by something. And so he asked her,"What are you doing to this girl? Why are you here?"

"She hurt my children! She stepped on my house!"

"Wait, how is that even possible? Where is your house?"

"Outside of the school."

So, there's this Pilipino superstition  that you shouldn't step on anthills or termite hills. But really any mound of dirt on the ground because there is a creature that lives in them that is called the Duwende.

Duwendes are very similar to to elves or goblins, and they're invisible to most people but they show each other to children or some adults they choose. They mostly just leave you alone but if you mess with them they can bring you a lot of bad luck and misfortune and in the worse case, death. And right outside the school, is filled with anthills. So, unfortunately my aunts niece did not know about this rule. So the sherif started pleading to this spirit beside the girl.

"She's just a kid. I'm sure it was just and accident. What can we do so you can forgive her and leave her alone?"

"Get Bananas, oranges, and salt and bring it to my house."

So they went to the store a got a bunch of fruit and salt and put it all around the anthills that where outside the school. And then when they went back inside the school, my aunts niece was totally normal, like she didn't even know what had happened. And she didn't remember speaking in any weird voice and she just thought that she had fell asleep. My aunt is a super saint person, I have no reason to believe that she would ever lie to me about this.

Something that makes the story a little weirder for me is that this is not the first story that had a duwende my members have told me. So, my moms side of the family used to live in Hawaii when she was younger, and my uncle was three years old and he just went missing for a few hours so everyone was looking for him and a few hours later he just showed up at the front door and they where like,"Where'd you go?" And he said,"Oh, I was just playing with the little people."

So my family is pretty convinced that the little people that he was playing with where duwendes.