The Tree of Hands

Once upon a thing, There was a woman who sold things , things that are unknown of the eye, of the eye to see. She was a Black woman who we Believed to be a witch ; a witch hidden in the darkness of the town. She came around every blue moon, she was always seen at Dawn. One day this man went up to her to see what she was up to and she scared him away ; away he ran screaming . A man asked the man what had he seen and he said Hands, I seen Hands Fresh Hands. The man was Astonished; Astonished he was. The man ran to the town mayor and told him what he saw and the mayor sought out to find her. He was able to find her eventually, so he ran her out of town, At least he thought he did. At night it was believed that you could hear screams and screaming you could hear long, all night long . The mayor was sickened, sickened he was by all the screams. The mayor had put a sign up for the woman ,the woman he wanted because he was tired, tired of the woman. People would come to the mayor and tell the mayor what they saw. One lady said she saw blood, blood was what she saw but where , where did the blood come from they wondered. Every night there was a different scream and a different scream it was, but no sign of the woman ,the woman he wanted.The mayor tried to drown out the screaming, the screaming he tried but nothing ever worked. More and more screams were heard and more and more blood was seen and seen were more and more blood and screams. What can we do a man said what can we do to stop this from happening. What can we do please tell us and tell us please. But the mayor was distraught and distraught he was. The mayor didnt say anything because he thought he couldn't do anything, so he did nothing but wait and wait is what he had done until the lady came back to town. The lady still wasn't heard or seen. No more screams or blood was seen. The town was calm and calm the town was. The mayor still believed the she would be back and she will be back he believed. On a fresh , windy, sunny day the woman was back, and she was by a tree, a tree she was by. Another man came up to her and saw what she was doing and ran screaming ; screaming he ran , to the mayor again he went. But the lady wasnt there, there they stood looking at the tree. People describe it as Amazing and amazing it was . The woman came back to put more and more to the tree; and to the tree she put more. The mayor seen the woman and fled her away and the mayor looked at the tree and at the tree he looked. The mayor was devastated to the point where he cut the tree down and burned it to the ground; to the ground it went and burned. The mayor was satisfied; satisfied the mayor. To this day the woman was never seen but the tree, the tree was seen and seen the tree was, it had Hands, Hands it had. How was the tree there if the mayor burned it down? Was it magic or fate? You pick and choose and choose you pick. May we never know!

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