Half zombified

Not me, but an old woman who keeps spirits in her house. Aunty related to me her house was plagued by hauntings recently. Her elder sister, H, went to be a confinement lady in a house at Upper Thomson. The newly-hired caregiver to an infant walked into the house and had odd feelings she couldn't explain. It wasn't her problem as her job is to take care of the newborn.

The domestic helper told H, "Grandma is very strange... She shuts her room door tight and windows are closed all the time. It's always dark in her room and no one is allowed to go in." H suspected something was amiss but again, she told herself so long as the witch (if there is one) doesn't harm her. Three days into the job, things started to happen.

H had trouble sleeping not because of a crying baby, she was often "disturbed". The Buddhist beads she wears round her neck snapped and she began to have bouts of breathlessness and physical lethargy. H eventually held out for one month before telling her employer she is quitting.

Finally, the "witch" extended her hospitality by slipping a bag of oranges into H's luggage bag without telling her. H noticed something extra and the witch sheepishly answered, "Oh! I am afraid you forget to take so I took the liberty to put the bag of oranges into your bag." Never did H realise, there was something else in the bag of fruits.

H got home and she wasn't spared of more disturbances. Taps turned on for hours when nobody was home. Even aunty felt an strange sense of eerie chill she couldn't explain. Aunty finally asked her elder sister if she brought "something extra" back. It was then H spoke about the oranges. Aunty nudged her to look through again. True enough, hidden in the bag of oranges was a bell. That bell served the purpose of attracting spirits controlled by the witch to harm.

H hurried to Johor Bahru to seek an exorcist. Upon meeting him and showing the bell wrapped in excerpts of Buddhist chant, the monk straight-away said, "Yes... there is something in that bell. The master of this spirit is no longer human, but half zombified. He/she has been consumed by the spirit." 

When I heard Aunty's account, I wondered what the monk meant. Aunty said, "养这鬼魂的主人已经变成半妖了..." Aunty recalled H relating how the witch looks like. Her face is always powdered till very pale, and when one looks at her, there is a sense of eeriness. It becomes obvious that something is wrong with this person.

Aunty's words to me, "I grew up in a kampong and black magic was a norm then - especially what is commonly known as Maoshan Black Magic. Once a person gets too deep into such occult practice, it becomes an obligation for the practitioner to harm a person every week, just to please the spirit. It can be physical harm, it can also be destroying relationships, marriages etc. The objective is to destroy someone. If the practitioner doesn't, the spirit will torment through physical pains, sicknesses and other forms of suffering."

PS> True story... Do you know someone like this? Rather, do you have someone like this in your house? Beware, you can be her next victim, not because she wants to harm you, but she no longer has a choice.