One day, out in a forest three twelve
year old boys were dragging a nine year old girl to a big pond. These boys were
bullies and the poor girl was their victim. When the four children reached the
pond, the boys pushed the girl into the pond. The boys were the cruel, selfish,
mean type of bullies who liked bullying other children, especially children
that were younger than them. The poor girl screamed and splashed around for
help because she couldn’t swim, but the horrible boys didn’t care. They ran
off, leaving the poor girl to drown.
It wasn’t long till the girl’s dead
body was found floating on top of the water, and of course the boys didn’t step
forward to admit what they did. Sad thing was these cruel boys were the types
who would never admit their wrongs and show no remorse for their sins. Another
sad thing was no one knew what had happened; they never saw the boys bulling
the girl and pushing her into the pond. So the boys were let off free.
One night, not long after the girl’s
body was found, a watchman was guarding the pond. Because of the drowning with
the little girl, it was decided that someone would watch over the pond during
the day and another during the night. While the man was keeping watch he suddenly
heard a noise, a noise of somebody crying. He held up his lantern to see where
the noise was coming from and there. Out on the middle of the pond, the water
was gushing up from the pond and moving around like it was walking; it was like
a watery ghost. The watchman was scared and ran away. A new watchman was placed
to guard the pond at night, but he got scared after seeing the watery ghost and
so did the next and the next and the next.
One day a priest came to visit the
pond; he heard about the watery ghost and wanted to see what was going on. That
night he waited at the pond with the five watchmen who got scared before from the
watery ghost. Soon they heard the crying and saw the water. “Oh ghost of the
pond,” the priest called out “why do you haunt this pond? Does thou have
regrets or art thou a spirit who is not put to rest yet?” The watery ghost
heard the priest and stopped moving. Then the water took shape of the little
girl who drowned. The watchmen knew at once who the girl was and told the
priest. “Please tell me little girl,” said the priest “why are you still here?”
The little girl walked over to the priest and tearfully told him about the boys
and what they did to her. The priest and watchmen were horrified about what the
little girl said.
The priest and watchmen told the
story about who the watery ghost was and about how the ghost died. The three
cruel boys were punished severely for their crime and a little shrine was made
for the little girl by the pond.
The watery ghost never appeared at
the pond again because the little girl’s spirit moved on to heaven, finally at
peace.
