Aunt Frances:
(V.O): For more than 200 years we Owens women have been blamed by everything that's ever gone wrong in this town.

(V.O):
Is that why people hate us so much, Aunt Frances?

Aunt Frances (V.O): They don't hate us, sweetheart.

(V. O):
We just make them a little nervous.

Aunt Frances (V.O): Let's face it, Jet, We Owens women have always created a stir. It all began with your ancestor, Maria.

A woman:
She was a witch.

Aunt Frances (V.O): The first in our family. And you are the most recent in a long and distinguished line.

(V.O):
Is that why they wanted to hang her? Because she was a witch?

(V. O):
The fact that she was a bit of a heartbreaker didn't help. Nor did it help that most of her lovers had wives on the hanging committee.

Aunt Frances (V.O): But no, I didn't think it was either of those reasons. They feared her because she had a gift a power that has been passed on to you children. She had the gift of magic. And it was this very gift that saved her life. She was vanished to this very island. With her unborn child growing inside her belly. She waited for her lover to rescue her. But he never came. No one came. In a moment of despair, she cat a spell upon herself that she would never again feel the agony of love. But as her bitterness grew the spell turned into a curse. A curse on any man who dared love an Owens woman.

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(V. O):
Is that why Daddy died? From the curse?

Aunt Frances (V.O): Yes, my darling.

Aunt Frances (V.O): Your mother knew She heard the beetles ticking for your father's death all day long. She knew that when you hear the sound of the deathwatch beetle the man you love is doomed to die.

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