I need help on how to stop a bad smell. Ngithwele and I smell so bad.
I used to be a simple lady who would sell snacks and magwinya at a train station every morning. I would wake up at 4am and be at the train station by 5am in winter to start selling magwinya(fat cakes).
On warmer seasons I'd just sell snack and I could hardly make anything. Sometimes I'd even go home without selling a simple sweet.
I wasn't the only one selling, there was another lady whom we became friends because we spent a lot of time together selling at the train station. We only made good money in winter because of fat cakes.
The lady I sold with suddenly stopped coming to sell, it had been over two months and sadly I did not have her number and I didn't even know where she lived so I just kept wondering what happened to her I was very worried to be frank.
Anyway one morning I found a very old woman sitting at the spot where I was selling, so I set up just next to her. I greeted her and she did not reply. I didn't mind her much, I thought she was waiting for the train.
The 5:30am train came and she didn't board. My customers were now coming and my spot was busy as usual. But to my suprise not even one client greeted her or even looked at her. Some were even standing next to her as if she wasn't there.
We had our usual chats with my clients but it bothered me why there were not acknowledging her. A week passed by and she was ignored, she came everyday but she was ignored and she still wouldn't greet me back or even talk to me never mind to even look at me. She was just looking down the whole time.
When I didn't find her I asked two of my clients if they noticed a weird looking and funny behaving old woman sitting next to me the past week and to my suprise they all said no. That shocked me and even frightened me.
The next day in the morning as I was leaving my house, pushing my wheelbarrow I found the old lady sitting exactly how she always sits. This time she was sitting just outside my gate.
I ran back to the house screaming. My husband and children came out to see what was happening and I told them that the old lady I was telling them about was at the gate. They rushed to the gate and they didn't find her.
When I looked I could see her. I ran back to the house and told everyone to come in and I locked the door. I was shaking and wondering what was happening. I could see that my husband and kids were now doubting my sanity.
I started seeing the woman everywhere I was even though I had stopped going to the train station for business out of fear, she still followed me everywhere I went.
One night while I was sleeping, I opened my eyes and she was standing next to my bed. I tried screaming but my voice wouldn't come out. I tried waking my husband up but I couldn't move.
The old woman then put her finger on her mouth showing me to be quite. She held me by the hand and we walked out of the house. She took me to a very scary place with only roundavel houses, many of them.
She pointed me to three roundavels and told me to pick one. When she opened her mouth to speak I noticed that she had a very long tongue,a tongue similar to a snakes tongue.
Her face was that of my late grandmother. I got confused and she explained that this is a family ritual and I was chosen to inherit it. I don't remember my family ever speaking about any family ritual.
I refused to choose any heart and she said I will lose everyone I love in cruel deaths if I refuse to choose. She then said she will take me back home but she will be back the next night and I better have a final decision or bad things will start happening.
Before I could even reply, I had my children screaming for me and my husband shaking me. I asked them what is going on and they told me that I was sleeping walking. I was found at the yard at the back of my house next to the cattle kraal.
To cut the long story short the next day the same thing happened and I had to make a decision. I chose one roundavel and the door opened. I was told that I have chosen a mermaid and therefore I have to go to a huge river that I will not mention monthly to feed the mermaid some blood.
I was told to go back home and the next I should go to that river with a pregnant woman, my sister was at that time pregnant. I went back and took her to the river.
Nothing happened but the next day she had a miscarriage. I then found a shoe box full of money in my bathroom. There was a message that read another pregnant woman next month same place, same date.
So far I have taken in a lot of pregnant ladies and I have paid them fairly well. They don't know that I am the cause of their miscarriages, I hunt unemployed pregnant ladies and pretend to want to spoil them. I lure them with money.
The river is at a beautiful space where picnics are the best, the water is super clean you'll never suspect any evil activities. So it's easy to complete my monthly task.
The problem is I stink so very bed when it's time to sacrifice. I will stink like fish the whole week before and another week after doing the ritual.
My husband is even refusing to share a bed with me now. The smell is so bad that even the neighbors have started complaining. This has done a lot of my self esteem and social life.
I have money but can't enjoy it.
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