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"Whatever their ical needs, these entities They do not age; they do not change And the key to understanding their childish and whi; they drift about unaware of time, for there is no physical reason to care about it, and they do whatever strikes the fancy Obviously they see our world; they are part of it; but how it looks to theuess

"Why witches attract them or interest them I don't know either But that's the crux of it; they see the witch, they go to her, make themselves known to her, and are powerfully flattered when they are noticed; and they do her bidding in order to get more attention; and in some cases, in order to be loved

"And as this relationship progresses, they are made for the love of the witch to concentrate on various tasks It exhausts thes so impressed

"But iine no much fun it is for the about altars and make thunder after sacrifices are offered up When a clairvoyant calls upon the spirit of a dead ancestor to speak to his descendants, they are quite thrilled to start chattering away in pretense of being the dead ancestor, though of course they are not that person; and they will telepathically extract information from the brains of the descendants in order to delude them all the more

"Surely all of you know the pattern of their behavior It's no different now than it was in our tis to what spirits do; and that difference is crucial

"When a spirit in these tih the vocal cords of a five-year-old child, no one much believes it except those who see and hear it It does not becoion

"It is as if the hus; it has evolved perhaps to a higher stage where the antics of spirits no longer befuddle it And though religions linger-old religions which became entrenched in darker times-the

y are losing their influence a the educated very rapidly

"But I'll say more on this later on Let me continue now to define the properties of a witch, as such things relate to me and my sister, and to what happened to us

"It was an inherited thing in our family It h the women and to be coupled invariably with the physical attributes of green eyes and red hair As all of you know-as you've come to learn in one way or another since you entered this house-my child, Jesse, was a witch And in the Talaued by spirits and ghosts

"Ghosts, of course, are spirits too But they are without question spirits of those who have been hu of are not However, one can never be too sure on this point A very old earthbound ghost could forget that he had ever been alive; and possibly the very er so for the pleasures of the flesh; and when they possess so they belch obscenities For them, the flesh is filth and they would have men and woerous and evil

"But the fact is, given the way spirits lie-if they don't want to tell you-there's no way to knohy they do what they do Perhaps their obsession with the erotic isabstracted frouilty about such things

'To return to the point, it was mostly the women in our fah bothfor reasons we can't grasp

"Be that as it may, ours was an old, old faenerations, to as called The Time Before the Moon That is, we claimed to have lived in the very early period of earth history before the ht sky

"The legends of our people told of the co of the moon, and the floods, stor really happened I don't know We also believed that our sacred stars were the Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters, that all blessings came from that constellation, but why, I never knew or cannot remember