Fountain Cavallina twilight story
This is the Cavallina fountain in Genzano di Lucania, where a strange thing happened to me when I was young, in fact it is so strange that I even remember it today, and here is the story.
Fountain Cavallina twilight story
Welcome to our hub (23) of, personal twilight
zone stories, this is going to be just another one of my own life stories that
I am telling our readers, which together with some other life stories that we
are writing in hub page form my entire personal life story, of course to these
stories we are adding our personal activities during my life like building and
bricklaying.
Anyhow let us start with our twilight zone
story.
Believe it or not, this is what has happened
to me and some of my friends, one night at an ancient fountain of my native
town of Genzano the Lucania, this might not be the best story to tell, but it
is one of the true stories of my life, and I cannot change it, because if I do
then I would not be telling the real story of my life.
So let me tell you this story that I call,
Cavallina fountain twilight story;
As we all know, wherever you go in the world
where there are ancient buildings or just places with a history of their own,
and in Genzano di Lucania there are some old places too with a history of their
own. With these old places old folks always seem to come up with ghostly
stories of this place or that place being haunted, because some strange things seem
to happen. So, my native town of Genzano has also these ghostly stories,
because old people say that these things exist and have happened to some of
them. So let us see if there are reasons to believe them, therefore, let me
tell you a story that has happened to me and to some my friends and other
things that seem strange enough to believe that these things really exist, here
under is my story and what really happened that night and why.
Now we need to say that my mother grandma and
other elders of the town of
Genzano kept
telling us not to go alone to this town fountain called Cavallina when it was
dark, but as we all know young people sometimes do not believe their elders and
want to find out if what they say is true, and so did I and some of my friends
one night.
But before I tell you my twilight story at
this fountain, let me tell you why I would like to do that, dear readers in our
last few posts we have been talking about the town where I came from and its
ancient fountain called Cavallina, now because I was talking about Genzano town
and this fountain I have remembered a particular ghostly event and also a dream
that I had about this fountain and also other creepy happenings and ghostly
stories about this fountain; because I would like to tell you some stories that
I personally was involved about this fountain, not only at the time when I was
young but also later on in my life. So I hope you would like to hear them, I
also can add some other personal view about ghostly personal events.
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The fountain twilight zone
As we have said above, when I was young my
mother, grandma and other elders of the town kept telling us not to go alone to
this fountain
Cavallina when it
was dark, because some people had seen ghostly sights; but if you had to go
there not to go alone and go as early as possible after dusk, so even when we
were coming back from the fields from that side of town, and we had to go past
this fountain we had to be careful as soon as it was dark, if you had to water
your horse or donkey or whatever animals you had to water, we tried to what
them during the day or early before dusk. We have to say that there were also
some other unspeakable activities that went on near this fountain before dusk,
but about these activities of dumping human excrement in the old sewer system
we are going to tell you later on in another article, because now we are
talking about ghostly things at this fountain at night.
To cut a long story short we are going to
tell you what happened to me and some of my friends. As you all know young men
in their later teen are not easily scared and they start thinking that these
ghostly stories are not true at all, so, we wanted to see it ourselves,
therefore I and a few friends of mine were going to pay a visit to this
fountain Cavallina at night; so, one late evening we went to see this fountain
Cavallina and from above as we approached the fountain there was nobody to be
seen, so, we said to each other, you see there is nobody here and there are no
ghosts around, we really thought that we were going to see something unusual at
this fountain, so we were disappointed saying to each other there are no ghosts
to be seen.
So we kept going to the fountain when we saw
a white rabbit in a corner and soon we gave chase as we wanted to grab this
rabbit, not just for fun, but because we wanted to eat the rabbit as meat was
expensive those days. There were four of us giving chase to this white rabbit,
but the rabbit kept escaping us, but we kept running after it and the rabbit
was taking us very close to a ravine which had a drop of over ten meter and any
one that would fall down there would instantly end up dead.
Anyhow suddenly one of us said; what rabbit
that is not a rabbit? Suddenly we realised that we were not chasing a rabbit at
all, but we were chasing a ghost or an evil spirit that was trying to take us
over the ravine to kill us if we had followed it. It is said that ghost or evil
spirits lose their full power when people realise that they are a supernatural
apparition, so, in this case we were lucky when we realised that what we were
chasing was not a rabbit at all, it was an evil spirit; well at least this is
what we were made to believe then from the elders, when we told our story.
What we have written above was real life
happening, but what I am going to tell you next is only a dream, but you can
say that this dream that we are going to tell you belongs also to the twilight
zone, just like my life story about chasing the white rabbit belongs to the
twilight zone.
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The fountain twilight dream
What we have written above was real life
happening, but what we are going to tell you next is only a dream, but we could
say that this dream that we are going to tell you may belongs also to the
twilight zone, just like the story above about chasing the white rabbit belongs
to the twilight zone.
So, let me tell you my dream, because what I
dreamed about is very strange; you see I was dreaming about an old person who
wanted to teach me something at my native town fountain called Cavallina. I
know that now you are saying that this is a stupid reason just to tell you a
dream and dreams are only dreams and they cannot be classified as being real,
but before you judge me and my dream just read what I have to say, because it
could be interesting especially if you believe that dreams sometimes have some
useful meanings, or they can come from the afterlife world.
To understand this dream better I need to
explain that this old person might have been the spirit my great, great, great
grandma who lived
not far from this fountain, and who had used this fountain during all her life,
perhaps she had lived through one of this contagious disease that require
washing everything properly to avoid contamination and this is what she wanted
to teach me.
When I dreamed this dream I was in Australia
in my late forties, but in my dream I was only a boy about ten or eleven years
old, (I suppose that this difference in age in the dream wanted to show me that
the old lady was very ancient spirit compared to me), so, this very old lady was
standing beside me at this fountain Cavallina, strange as it may seem I had
taken some dishes and other eating utensil from the old house where my grandma
lived to wash at the fountain; the old lady was telling me to wash everything
under the first spout of the fountain and keep everything in the first bay near
this first spout, so that they would not be contaminated, and so I did; but as
you know dreams sometime are very strange and suddenly I found that some of my
dishes were in the second bay of the fountain, so I started to worry about it,
but the old lady said to me not to worry about it, I was protesting to her
saying that you said that the other bays are contaminated, and she said don’t
worry just for this time and you will soon know why, when you wake up.
Then I woke up and realised that it was only
a dream, so I understood why the old lady had said do not worry about the
dishes in the second bay of the fountain, it was because it was only a dream
and the dishes even though had been contaminated in my dream, I was not going
to use them anyhow, just because they were only in my dreams, and they were
thousands of miles away, in another era and in another place. I believe that
the old lady was one of my forbear who popped up in my dreams to teach me a lesson
about food contamination or something like that, and she did.
Well, today you might say that we all know
that to avoid contamination you have to keep everything clean and that is true;
we can also use some disinfectant that would kill all germs, so there is not
much to learn from this dream. But you see, the old lady did this in a dream
using the level of general knowledge when she was alive, which most likely was
a lot lower than today standard. Anyhow that is what I dreamed and I think it
is pretty cool, if we believe in these sorts of things. And now let us see what
else I could tell you about my personal twilight stories.
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Strange things happen
We have already told you a couple of our
twilight stories, I suppose that during our life we have seen and heard many
things that now we could tell it is our life experiences. So I would like to
write another story or two here, as you may know some other life stories we
have already written in hub pages, therefore here under we are posting some
links, so that you could read them if you like, but at the same time let me
tell you another story straight away that is very similar to the stories above
and could be said to be another twilight story.
In order to understand this story it is
necessary that first I describe the place where it has happened and the reasons
why it has happened there and then tell you what happened.
This near twilight story happened to me when
I was a teenager I think that I could have been 17 years old in our family
farm. Our family farm buildings consisted of two large rustic rooms plus other
small buildings beside them, one of these buildings was used to store all the
farm carts and machinery and the other was our main building that we used for the
farm animals and ourselves. Now before I continue I need to say that our farm
was wall to wall with other farmers next door, so I was not completely alone in
the middle of nowhere. The reason I have said that is to explain that while I
was left alone in charge of all the animals in our building at night so young,
it was possible because our farm was besides this other farm building where
other people were also sleeping at night, so it was safe enough from robbers
and other things, as we could always call on each other, if help was really
needed.
The main and larger building consisted of a
rustic building about 12 meters long and 8 meters wide or there about; two
third of this building was used for the large farm animals, like horses, mules,
donkeys and cows who were tied to a manger at night, the other third of this
building was used for ourselves, here we stored some oats and other valuable
produce that we would use day to day to feed the animals and the rest of this
space was for us humans, where we could cook our meals and sleep at night while
we were attending the farm animals. Now before I move to tell you that part of
story that we could call the twilight story, I need to say that in this
building there was also two pair of domestic pigeons that nested there and they
would fly around the building during the day, at night they would stay in their
nest or perched on some place in the building.
Now that we have explained that let us tell
you what happen one night, this was the night when my grandpa died and this
farm house was his farm house and it had been their family farm for
generations, so the old man was very attached to his farm; anyhow I was alone
and sleeping in the farm the nigh he died and while I was sleeping I could
somehow feel that something was flying around the farm house, whatever it was
it going and stoping for a few seconds here and there as if it wanted to
inspect the place, once it had done that it flew out of the small open window
at the back of the farm building, and that was that.
Next day the news came that my grandpa had
passed away that night, and that I had to go to town to attend his funeral. One
may say that this is a strange story and perhaps I was only dreaming that night
about this thing that went around all the farm building, but one should also
consider that if souls really exist then my grandpa soul came to say goodbye to
his earthly possessions and to me his grandchild.
That is all for the time being, but I know
that I can add here another twilight story, but this story is going to be very
difficult to tell, so has got to be another time, when I review these hubs.
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Since we have been talking in our last two
hubs about the town of Genzano di Lucania, which is indeed the town that I have
come from originally, when I came to Australia. I have been thinking that
perhaps it would be the right thing to do; if in our next hub we will be
talking more about, the town which I have come from, before we start talking
about my emigrating and my life in Australia. See you there.
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