Litchfield enquirer., 1875-09-09

speech. and, whenever she Sae angry, her eyes. which werd long and narrow in shape, seemed almost to emit fire, and gave her Q terribly savage aspect. How ever, when not ont of temper. she wass a handsome girl. She seldom spoke mucll, but she very soon got into inc confidence of her master and mistress; and, one day, when the latter mentioned to her what had been told her by the old woman. she said: -.r
 "'Ah, yesl I have known it long time, but I was afraid to tell you. Children with that mark grow into LObis-h0Daesas before they get to be sixteen, unless some thing is done Go stop it.s 2 RSE
 And what can be done?' said my mis- tress.
 'You must cover the evil mark with the blood of a white pigeon, strip the child naked. and lay it on q bianket on the mountain side the very first night the moon rises in the heavens after midnight. Then the moon will draw the mark up through the blood. justas she s1dnws wa tcrs of the sen up at full tide, and the child will be saved
 The farmer and his wife agreed to do this to save their child from becoming a IO6is-h0naen, and. it happening to. be a new moon late in the night day or two afterward, the needful preparations were made, and when the night came the child was laid on the mountain side, near the house, while the moon was still below the horizon. This done, we all returned to the house. for it was essential that no eye should be upon the child until the moon had risen. The farmer began to grow un- easy, thinking that there might be wolves near, but the men treasured him. saying that a wolf had not been seen in the neighborhood for many years. Neverthe- less, he loaded his gun, putting into il, for want of other ammunition, five or six rusty nails. 4-
 ''He had hardly done so when, to our horror, we heard the most piercing screams from where the child was lying in an instant we had all rushed out-the screams increasing as we neared the spot. At this very instant the moon rose, and we saw 6 huge brown wolf staLding over the body of the child. his fangs bloody, and his eyes looking like fire. Seeing us come up he slunk of, but the farmer fired at him before he could reach the wood close by, and he fell and rolled over. I ran up to fnlsh him with as heavy stick which I had in my hand, but could only give him one stroke before he rose to his feee and made of. The blow was a heavy one, and struck him on the fore-leg, and he went of into the wood bowling and limping.
 We found the poor child quite dead; it's throat was frightfully torn by the wolfs teeth, and the blanket was soaked with blood. se ra8 Es
 sEpv. it was noticed almost immediate- ly that the girl Joan had not been seen since the child had been put out, nor was she in the house when we got back. Then for the frat time did the truth flash upon us-the woman had been an accursed LOJis-hOHen, and had murdered the child; and, in wOunding the wolf, we had in truth wounded the girl, who had assumed his form. The next morning we followed the traces of the wounded wolf, and, in- side the wood. not ten paces from where he had been seen to enter it. we found Joana lying on the ground covered with blood. She immediately began to ex- plain to us that she had crept into the wood when we had left the child, fearing that some mischief might happen to him; that she had heard screams, and had run toward the child in the darkness; that just as she was getting to the outside of the wood the moon rose, she saw us coming, saw the wolf run toward her, heard the gum fired, immediately felt herself to 'be wounded in fine side, and fell to the ground, where she had lain ever since.
 "Of course we knew that these were lies suggested by the devil, 60 VIC seEt for the priest, but before he came she had died. They buried her where she lay, and the wise woman, who came to look at her, said she had the mark of the lobis.honsen on her breast quite plain, and was evi. dently 6 servant of the Evil One. The woman said that if she had seen the girls eye she could have told at once what she was, for the IObis-homcRs all get to have the long, narrow eyes and savage look of Ghe wolf. She also explained Co us that if 6 tObis-h0Dsen can murder and drink the blood of a newly-born child the enchant- ment ceases, and they arc tObis-hone,a no longer"
 "And what did the priest say?" asked.
 ''He said. replied the farmer, "that we were fools to have anything to do with q woman from Tarauca, for 1t was Q nest of witches and warlocks.
 "And you are quite sure this girl was a real lO6is-hoDien?'
 'T never doubted it for a moment Did not see Joan's own eyes in the wolf as he turned round when struck him? how can I doubt? Besides," said the farmer, after a pause, ''there was the mark of heavy blow on her right arm-exactly where I struck tho wolf Sho never ac- counted for that From Trarcis. in Portugal, by John LGtOache, London,