Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Sacred Evil is story nun Wiccan and girl in search of mother Based on true story from case files of real-life Wiccan, Fact2: Wiccan is called by unconventional Mother Superior to heal Martha 's soul, Fact3: Martha is reticent in talking about events in past, Fact4: Anglo-Indian girl called grows up with angst of not knowing Maureen alienated in Indian surroundings by blue eyes and blonde hair, Fact5: Claudia In search for becomes obsessed with mother 's image Maureen
Output (English): Based on a true story from the case files of a reallife Wiccan, Ipsita Roy Chakraverti, Sacred Evil is the story of three women separated by a twentyyearold secret: a nun, a Wiccan and a girl in search of her mother. The nun is Martha, a 45yearold withering woman who lives in a secluded convent in Calcutta. Even in the sanctuary of the Church, she is haunted by a specter that threatens her sanity. The Wiccan, Ipsita, is called upon by the unconventional Mother Superior to heal Marthas soul. The task is difficult as Martha is reticent in talking about the events in her past. Using her skills as a healer and her training as a Jungian psychotherapist, Ipsita gradually opens the door to Marthas story of the one who haunts her. An AngloIndian girl called Claudia grows up with the angst of not knowing her mother Maureen, alienated in her Indian surroundings by her blue eyes and blonde hair. The story now goes back and forth as events from Claudias life begin to intersect Marthas and Ipsita tries to sort out the tangled threads of the past and present. In her search for the lost Maureen, whom everyone says looked much like her, Claudia becomes obsessed with her mothers image. She begins to turn into her mother. Like her, she seeks out and falls in love with a foreigner, Pierre, a young Frenchman who is in Calcutta for a doctorate. But Pierre is never sure who is in love with him, Claudia or Maureen. As she tries to heal Martha with centuriesold Egyptian rituals of the Wicca, Ipsita learns of Claudias struggle to keep her sanity and Marthas attempts to save her soul — how she tried hard to bring her to the Church and let God heal her. Ipsita also learns that somewhere the attempts failed. Something happened. Claudias burden became Marthas. With her own efforts failing to heal Marthas spirit, Ipsita is led to a startling discovery in the end which makes her wonder if the sacred will ever be as strong in us as the evil is.