Danielle Halloway had just arrived home from his fathers funeral.Theodore lived with his family in a small, four room house at the edge of the woods on his fathers Theodore' s land, but know that his father had died he now owned the land and the large Halloway Manor. His family packed their things and soon were living in the manor.1
These were troubled times.Even though the witch trail had ceased long before then that did not mean that they had completely died out, for many of them new the ways so well they had never been caught. Then they had taught their children the ways or had taught the children of the village. And they had become their apprentices. Danielle Halloway was one of them. His family had never found this out, and as far as he knew they had never even suspected it. Danielle was known as a righteous man. He was at church every time the doors open, but how wrong they were they never knew until that fateful night.2
Now moved into the house Danielle continued his practises in the hidden room his brother and he had played in so many times during their childhood.It was the perfect place.Before he had had to go off into the woods to keep his secret from his family, but know he could cast spells, rituals, and do everything else without worry.3
They had been living at the manor for three years. Late one night there had been a frightening scream coming from his beloved, only daughter Aoibheann' s room. They lived in a small town, and soon Danielle had heard of his unfaithful wife's affair. He had been trying to put a terrible curse on his wife that he knew would lead to death. He had taken what he thought was his wife' s brush off the dresser, so that he could use the hair that was on it. What he didn' t know was that it was Aoibheann' s, and that she had forgotten it in her mother' s room after she had let her mother brush her hair. For Aoibheann was only eight.4
Danielle ran to his daughter room, only to find what he had done. His daughter was having fitful dreams it seamed, but what was happening was that Danielle had sent out demons to attack his wife. Aoibheann never awoke. She was buried in the back yard.5
Danielle accused the house for his daughter' s death having no one else to blame. The church took this death as not mere coincidence. They condemned Danielle' s wife to witchcraft, and she was burned.6
Danielle lived the rest of his unnaturally long life alone, after his son was grown and living else where, and hateful. He never turned his hate away from the house, and before he died he cursed the house and all of its future inhabitants and any one in relation to the house. 7
Author notes
This is how i pictured it began.
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A very interesting write. I never thought of a witchcraft angle... but yeah, it does kinda fit.
heh heh... A very well put together piece. Thanks for entering my very dead contest. 
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i like this a lot. i read what the author wrote and this is a really good prologe to that story. it has the right amount of suspense and it explains so much of what later happens. you are talented at writing stories because you can get to the point of the story without sounding too rushed. that is something that i am wrking on but you have already mastered. keep it up
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thanks for your comment on mine, sorry, i guess some of us are slower than others, i did say it was my first try at a story, i wanted it to be good, anyway, your story was good and makes a good beginning for what akito19 wrote.
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