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Nov 10, 1918

A cautionary flash-fiction tale about the occult, set during World War One. By Russell Cavanagh.

"Go on Jeannie, read the leaves!" they urged.

        Mrs. Sanderson, who was new to the circle, asked, "You can tell the future, Jeannie?"

        Jeannie protested that she hadn't done it for a while but now encouraged by the group she said, "Give me your cup. I'll see if there's anything in the leaves for you." She swished the dregs in the bottom of the cup before spilling them out onto a saucer.

        Peering into the cup Jeannie frowned. "I see a man in uniform. He's coming to visit you."

        Mrs. Sanderson gasped, eyebrows raised in astonishment. "My son is in the army. You couldn't possibly have known that. He's due to come home on leave in a couple of months."

        Six weeks later Mrs. Sanderson heard a gentle knock on her door. Opening it, she saw the man in uniform holding an envelope.

        The officer said, "Mrs. Sanderson, I regret to inform you ..."

        This was on the tenth day of November 1918.




CC BY-ND 4.0 Russell Cavanagh

 

Deuteronomy 18:10-12 (KJV)

10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.

11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.


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