Overheard

8. Overheard

A farmer late at night left the tavern to go home

Then he saw the people of the night and heard them praying out loud curiously from behind a corner in order to see the ritual

Soon the procession moved ahead and as they passed where he was before

But because he knew that it's not good to come upon the group of ghosts he fled behind a house and stretched his head

They prayed only quietly and disappeared behind the next road curve

Only when in bed he recalled who had walked last in the line

The old woman who lived in the house in front of which he had seen the worshippers

When the farmer awoke in the morning his head was so swollen that he could not show himself among the people

The old lady however died four days later of a stroke