The Bird People

In 1600s Virginia, a small colonial village sprang up unceremoniously on the sacred burial grounds of the Native American people it was taken from, the Nottoway. Now, an ancient evil has been awakened in the form of Elementals known as The Bird People and it is suspected that the Nottoway Tribe has cursed the ground in revenge for being encroached upon by colonial settlers.

After failed crops, still births, deaths, burnt homes and facing starvation, superstitions run rampant and the townspeople do the only thing they can think of in the late 1600s to appease these angry and destructive spirits. Give them an offering.

It is quietly decided by the elders of the community, in an effort to keep these spirits of the bird people at bay, that every woman should give up her first born infant daughter to them.

One such young mother cannot bear this resolution much less imagine giving up her only child. In order to keep her only child, a daughter, she makes a baby out of straw and gives that instead, bringing chaos to their puritan village.

A cursed girl.

The man who loves her.

A questionable death.

Native American Lore.

Elemental Guardians.

A village built on sacred burial grounds. What could go wrong?

-An ONC Shortlisted Winner-
-ONC Ambassadors Pick-

MAIN PROMPT No. 56
In a world where humans and magical creatures coexist a detective must solve a murder case that threatens to plunge the two communities into war.

**My twist of the prompt is that the 'other community' are Wendigos. Wendigos are similar in effect to Skin-Walkers.

Ⓜ️𝗥𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲
Will include: Paranormal Activity, Ritual Activity, Superstitions, Early American Colonial Life, Native American Lore/Subjects, Descriptions of child birth and death. Maybe some difficult situations.