FEAR OF MYTHS
CURTIS BRAY JR
MY-HA NGUYEN
ITT ARLINGTON
Author Note

Abstract
When I was eight years old, I remember having had many scary things happen to me. There is one scary moment that I still remember like it was yesterday because it was very difficult to forget, especially when you have been traumatized by a scary situation. Being an eight year old child, all I wanted to do was play without thinking about the consequences of not obeying my mother. At that time, one of the myths was that if children did not obey their parents, they could see the devil. According to the myth, the devil would appear to the children because they opted to ignore what parents were asking them to do. There are many other myths like this one some of these myths my mother and grandparents told to my brothers and me about. I thought that they was making a lot of emphasis about these myths because they wanted us to be obedient all the time, and I was insisting on not believing them, but One day, my mom asked me if I could go to the store to buy something for her and I replied to her, “Mom, why do not you send my brother?” I told my mother I did not want to go outside because it was very dark. I remember it was around 8:30pm or 9:00pm. Having in mind that my mother was getting angry at me because I was not obeying her, I decided I was not going to do what I was being asked to do. Finally my mom forced me to go to the store and she said to me, “The devil is going to appear to you, and it will scare you.” I remember that around the corner of my block there was a land with an unfinished house, and it was also very dark. While walking to the store just in front of this area, I felt a breeze around my body. It felt a little strange, and since I was the only one walking around this area, I began to feel scare. As I was crossing the street, I turn around to look at the unfinished home, and I saw a big man standing in the middle of the empty land. This man was wearing a very big hat and black clothes. I remember that this man was holding his head with his right hand along the hip area. This man was standing there with horses walking around him. I recall that I stood there unable to move, and when I finally reacted, I was already at home just in front of my mother. She was asking me what was wrong with me, and I told her what happened. She took me by my hand, and we went to look at the land because she did not believe me when I told her what I saw. When we got there, we did not see anything unusual there. On our way home she told me that sometimes things like this could happen for not obeying parents or adults. Later that night as I laid down to go to sleep, I hear the door to my mother’s room close. I couldn’t shake the figure that I saw, it continued to play in my head like a broken record. Staring at the ceiling, I feel my eye lids start to get heavy and each time I blinked they stayed shut a longer amount of time. Then a loud thump startled me. I looked, and to my surprise in my doorway was that tall dark hooded figure just standing stiff and motionless. My body suddenly went numb. The temperature dropped so low that I can actually see the moisture from my breathe forming as if I was smoking on a pipe. Paralyzed by fear, I wanted to scream and yell for someone to help me. But my felt as if it was sewn shut. The Dark figure started to slowly walk up to my bed. As the figure slowly climbed on top of me as I closed my eyes. Its breath smelled full of death. I began to say “Jesus save me. I am sorry for being so disobedient towards my mother.” Then suddenly I felt a sudden warmth as if the sun was shining down on me. I slowly opened my eyes and to my surprise it was morning. The dark figure was nowhere to be found. I had survived thru the night. I quickly jumped out of my bed and busted into my mother’s room to tell her about what had happened, but she was not in her bed. I yelled her name and got no response. Then I noticed her bed was not made up and cleaned. This was unlike my mother. First to get up and not make her bed. Then to not even inform me that she was leaving. Then I heard her come thru the front screen door. I ran into her arms and hugged her as if I never wanted to let her go. With a tear in my eye I asked her where she had gone. She told me that something had happened at the unfinished house. She and a few of the neighbors had went to check it out. They all noticed two large imprints burned into the concrete. Looking at the imprints very closely my mother told me she saw my initials carved in the center. Frozen to the core, I never even attempted to go past the unfinished house. I took my mother’s word because of the look in her eyes was all the truth I needed.
In conclusion, there are many myths about the devil. This is just one of the thousand that exist, and this was not the only bad experience that I have had as a child. What I learned from this experience was that no matter what, I always have to obey my parents and adults.

FEAR OF MYTHS
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