Abe Locke

Abe Locke (1793-1832) was an American criminal, witch, and pricolici. He was also the genetic father of Michael Locke.

## Biography

### Human

Abe Locke was born on November 24th, 1793, in Salem, Massachusetts.

During his rough childhood, he experienced severe physical abuse from both parents, especially his mother. His parents were emotionally and physically abusive to both each other as well as him, and his mother would frequently beat him with an axe handle when he acted out. However, when Abe reached the age of sixteen, he had enough and snapped. When she tried to strike him for something menial, Abe, who was much more physically powerful, fought back and killed her by accident. Strangely, he found that he liked the sensation of taking a life.

He pinned his mother's murder on his father, who was sent to prison for it. The young killer had gotten away with it, and he was sent to an orphanage in Boston for the rest of his childhood. Soon after he arrived at the orphanage, a four-year-old boy died under mysterious circumstances, though deaths in orphanages were extremely common at the time and the death was not investigated.

When he turned eighteen, he was released from the orphanage. He returned to Salem, the only other place he knew, and found a job in a bakery. He also rented a small room in an inn to stay in while he earned enough for his own house. He quickly became quite popular and was known by many in the area to be a hard worker and a polite young man. He also decided to refrain from killing humans for a short time, to avoid suspicion of death seeming to follow him. Instead, he snuck out at night to satiate himself with animals for the time being.

For the next two years, Abe worked. When he had enough money, Abe hired laborers and had a small, two-room log house built on the outskirts of the town.

On April 30th, 1813, his life changed forever. While out deep in the Massachusetts woodland looking for animals to kill, Abe came upon a clearing. Within it, he saw a massive bonfire was raging and a group of silhouetted figures seeming to dance around it, chanting things in a language he couldn't understand. He didn't know it yet, but he had happened upon a coven of witches having a sabbath.

Curious, Abe got closer to the edge of the treeline. He saw men and women of various ages, wearing black robes and speaking in tongues, but was suddenly spotted by one of the male witches. The witch pointed a finger at him and screamed an incantation, instantly paralyzing Abe. He collapsed to the ground facedown and struggled to escape the invisible magical bonds, but it was useless.

He heard the witches surround him, and Abe could hear them as they debated what to do with him. Most were for killing him outright, while some thought they should only bewitch him and use him for their goals. As the argument continued, Abe could only listen. But then, he heard the wind pick up speed and scatter whistle through the trees. Then he suddenly heard the fluttering of heavy cloth from a few feet away. Then, a deep, rather seductive male voice came from that same location, ordering the witches to indoctrinate Abe into their coven and telling them that he could sense the evil already within him. A moment later, the immobilization curse was lifted. When he rose, Abe found himself still surrounded by the witches, but a new, darkly-clad man dressed in a black long coat and crimson red scarf stood before him, holding a large tome in his hand. Abe quickly realized that the man was the owner of the dark voice he had heard before. The one who seemed to appear from nowhere.

The man held the book out in between him and Abe, and the book levitated from the man's hand as it rotated midair to face Abe, opening to a fresh page as a quill pen floated beside it. Abe was told that he could either sign the book and join their covent, or die. Abe took their offer and became a witch that night, learning from the witches that the mysterious man was none other than Satan himself.

For the next eight years, he studied witchcraft with the coven and met with them regularly, yet secretly, during their sabbaths. He desired to learn every dark magical skill that would help him in his own goals of murder, and it was around this time he resumed killing; he also would occasionally capture victims alive and sacrifice them to the Devil at their sabbaths.

In 1819, Abe came across an odd section in an old occult tome, telling of a kind of rare creature called a pricolici. The creature intrigued him, and seeing its usefulness for murder, he decided to dedicate the next few years to becoming one. He dove deeply into an uncountable amount of books, trying to find out how he could become one. As the species was so rare, very few instructions on the transformation existed.

Eventually, in 1821, Abe would prove successful and finally become a pricolici. Shortly after, he moved to Savannah, Georgia (a major port city) as he knew that its high-traffic would help his murders to blend in.

Over the coming years, Abe would use his dark powers to kill numerous times, becoming more and more powerful.

In 1826, Abe met a British nurse named Alice Marriott who had been visiting America. He married her, albeit through force, and the two had a son together in 1830. Abe did his best to make his son, Michael, as violent as he was. He was also quite abusive to Alice, and she feared him.

On December 11th, 1832, Abe decided to invade a family's home late at night. He went through the house, killing most of them, but as he fought the father, he desperately threw a nearby oil lamp at Abe. It broke, and the oil combusted violently, lighting the house ablaze. Fire, one of the few things that could kill a pricolici no matter its power, eventually killed Abe as he was unable to escape the blaze. The rest of the family did not survive, but Abe's rain of terror was over.

Though he was dead, his influence was far from gone. His witch powers allowed him to call out to his son and try to tempt him, even from within hell.