Tuesday 20 October 2020

Maisie's Rosary

 


Maisie was an old lady down our street

Who scared us kids if ever we did meet

She wore a rosary our parents said

The cross of which that was made of bone

From her dead husband's fingers; how we moaned!

Which made us scared before we went to bed


We would laugh at the tale when were older

And would pass her house when we were bolder

For it was one way she still had him close

Ma said it was because she loved him so

Dad said it was she wouldn't let him go

Young sis Ann covered her ears filled with dread


14 comments:

  1. I love your answers to the prompt questions – and the different viewpoints of Ma and Dad.

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  2. Just the sort of story kids love to tell, Robin!

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  3. LOL, agreed with Kim. This is exactly the sort of thing kids will say to scare each other.

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  4. I like Dad's version best, and it's such a Dad thing to say! Plus, it adds to the spooky story as it's told and elaborated over the years.

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  5. I second and third what Kim and Rommy said. There is a rather high possibility that I might've been one of those kids.

    On a separate note, I read about a tribe where the wife walked around with her deceased husband's skull on her shoulder, and she would place it on the mantel when she was home. If said woman was to date/marry again, the one courting had to ask her husband's skull for permission. The world is a very interesting place.

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  6. Is it wrong to be delighted by this? This is the kind of tale that would have definitely found a home on my street growing up. :)

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  7. One of those deliciously scary tales that occur and become legend. No doubt a walk by that house now and one can hear the fingers scratching on the windows!

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  8. Nice one human bones scary and a dead husband double scary. Kids know how to spin these yarns best
    Stay safe Robin
    Thanks for dropping by to read mine

    Much❤love

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  9. A great story .... made me think back, way back to the stories that circulated in my hometown of 1,200 folks.

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  10. Maisie and I would have been the best of friends, don't you think? :)

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  11. Now THAT'S a neighbor to remember!

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  12. I like how you told kind of a creepy / frightening (at least from a child's point of view) story, but you used rhymes that made it playful and sweet.

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  13. Robin, I'm with Dad, she has to let him go. A lot don't and will not. I know, are there, new spouses can be just "what the doctor ordered."
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