CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH A SUCCUBUS!

My third brother-in-law, Late Sri Krishna Bahadur Mukhia was a great story - teller. Whenever he visited us with my sister he used to bring us fruits and dry fruits and he used to tell us a story each and every time . I still remember that he finished a Dracula story in about two years, part by part. My sister then was living in proper town of Darjeeling in India, whereas we were living about one kilometer below the town centre. Nowadays you can hire a car, travel down but then we had to walk up and down everytime. Coming back to the main story, for which due to apparent reasons, I am aware only of the ending. It was not told by my brother-in -law but by his fairly related younger brother , who himself was the main character. His name was Sher Bahadur Mukhia, working as an army man. His Office was located at a place called Lebong, about 5 to 6 kilometers from the main town and we could traverse in cars. He used to go to work by 10 am and come back home by 6:00 pm and at the time, he was staying in his quarters in town near the Police station .

One evening, Sher could not get a vehicle to return to the town, so, he decided to walk back home and he had a friend to give him company until the halfway. They came together till a place called Chitrey where that friend of his, had his house. Bidding goodbye, Sher started sprinting towards his house. When he arrived at Bhale Dhunga, a rock climbing mountaineering spot, he saw a lady in a white sari standing there. At first, he was a little confused whether it is a person or not, at that time of the night. But when he reached near that lady attired in white, he saw that she was weeping.

He asked her, " What happened ?". She looked at him and said, " I am coming from the hospital, where my dad is admitted but now I am scared to head home alone." He tried to console her, " Don't worry, where do you stay?", she just pointed towards the jungle. That man's ego and manlihood coming into the picture here, he replied "I'm going to drop you till your house". She was glad and they started walking towards the jungle. Not even after ten minutes of walk, they reached her house. She was greatly thankful and than, greeting her bye, he returned home.

Roughly a week later, he met the same girl and they spent some time together. According to Sher, even after 7 or 8 dates with that lady, he still hadn't mentioned it to anyone. But once, when he came to our house, my great aunt asked him why he was getting lean and looked so weak. He didn't mention anything and made an excuse of heavy work. But you know, old people were really smart, my aunt asked my brother- in-law to keep an eye on his brother, Sher.

One night, my brother-in-law and some of his friends followed him, they saw him going towards the jungle but no sign of anybody else. Approx 10 days later, give or take a few days, our family had a big gettogether during our main festival, Dusshera, where they raised the same matter about Sher and they confronted him. He confessed that he is in love with a girl, living in that jungle and her father is in the hospital, so she was always late when going home, needless to say, as she was taking care of him. Judging the situation, some of us were not comfortable about the situation and conditions he met her at. Some of us even doubted the possibility of a succubus. Our next door neighbor, an old chap, who was also renowned as the local witch doctor or wizard(whatever you prefer calling it) told Sher to do a simple trick to figure out the reality of the situation. Sher was confused and anxious but obliged to follow as he wanted to reason with everybody. Then the old neighbor told him the procedure, whereby, next time then they meet and caress each other, if she is a paranormal kind, then she wouldn't have a back, as in the flesh and skin, but only the back bone, yes the actual skeleton spine, then, Sher had to tie a white thread at her backbone and roll the thread ball, which the old neighbor had prayed and gifted it to him, stating that it held great universal sacred power.

To his amazement and fear, the next time they had a date he did discover the skeleton back on that lady, and summoning all the remaining bravery and strength in him, somehow he managed to do as instructed by his old wizard neighbor. After that was done, after getting further instructions from the old neighbor, many of us researched about it, followed the thread attached to that entity's back, which ended in a grave, where, after digging, we found just a human femur bone, almost half filled with blood. They burnt the bone on a pyre in the same graveyard. I was there and we clearly heard the screaming of a lady there while it was burning. After this incident, Sher was hospitalized in Siliguri, close to his real house, so that he can be looked after by his family members. That scene was over and few years went by, when he told us this story in full because we had witnessed only a few sections. After he told this story I asked him: "Saila Solti (Third Bro-in-law) what was the name of the lady ?" At this he gave a big laugh and told me that he forgot to ask her name!

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