The Barrens Page #4

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WeII, it Iives in the woods.

These woods.

- What is it?

- Do you beIieve in witches?

- Witches?

- Not Iike the kind with bIack cats

and fIying broomsticks.

A different kind.

A reaI witch.

Mother Leeds was the town whore.

She was never married.

She was aIways pregnant.

The story goes

that she had 12 kids

and she raised them

in these woods in a IittIe, tiny cabin

not too far from here.

As you can imagine,

with 12 kids, they just ran wiId.

There was no man in her Iife

to help raise them.

So it kind of feII to the town

to take care of them, you know?

Feed them, protect them,

cIothe them, educate them.

Eventually, the elders

grew tired of aII of this.

They decided that the town shouIdn't be

responsible for her offspring.

So they told her--

if she bore another chiId,

then she wiII be banished

from the Barrens forever.

Oh, no. Not banished.

Mother Leeds was furious

and she was scared.

I mean, banishment from the woods

meant certain death

for her and her famiIy.

She was poor. She reIied on the town

to take care of her kids

and give them the things

that she was unabIe to give them.

So she agreed

and Iife continued on.

The Iegend goes that one day,

Mother Leeds grew vioIentIy iII.

She stopped going to town,

she withdrew from peopIe,

she became a totaI recIuse.

These rumors started popping up

that she was practicing witchcraft

and making deaIs

and conjuring the deviI himseIf.

Other rumors feared her dead.

The Iast rumor, it proved to be true.

Mother Leeds was pregnant.

Pregnant with her 13th chiId.

( giggIes )

Woman:

She was hiding the baby.

She couIdn't teII the eIders.

With 12 kids,

keeping a secret, weII--

- Did they find out?

- Oh, yeah.

They went to her cabin

to find out for themseIves.

She was very much pregnant.

She pIeaded and begged.

She told them that she

hadn't been with a man for years,

but they didn't beIieve her.

They agreed to Iet her stay in the cabin

untiI she gave birth.

As soon as the child was born,

she and her famiIy had to move on.

She cursed the eIders,

the town, the Barrens,

even the unborn baby.

She toId them

that it wasn't hers.

- That it was the deviI's baby.

- You all right?

Let him take it.

And take him the deviI did.

On the night

that she went into Iabor,

after hours of agony,

she finaIIy gave birth.

But what came out of Mother Leeds

was not human.

It had cIoven hooves,

a serpentine tail,

a head of a horse,

and a kangaroo body.

( screaming )

The 13th child of Mother Leeds

was nothing short of the deviI himseIf.

The midwife screamed,

she dropped the child

and it immediateIy

sprouted these wings

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