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The cursed doll that brings misfortune to anyone who possesses it

This chilling story pits Lily against a cursed doll that brings misfortune to anyone who possesses it. She turns to her darkest resources in an attempt to break the curse, but will she be successful in averting disaster?

By AshDream_StoryPublished about a year ago 7 min read
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In a small city nestled deep in the heart of the forestland, there was a legend about a accursed doll that brought mischance to anyone who held it. The story goes that the doll was made by a revengeful witch who was seeking vengeance against the townspeople who had indicted her of rehearsing dark magic.

The doll was said to be held by the spirit of the witch herself and was cursed to bring bad luck to whoever possessed it. The townspeople believed that the only way to break the curse was to destroy the doll and scatter its pieces across the four corners of the earth.

still, despite the warnings, there were always those who sought to retain the accursed doll, either out of curiosity or rapacity. And each time someone acquired the doll, strange and terrible effects would start to be to them and those around them.

The rearmost person to acquire the accursed doll was a youthful woman named Lily. She had heard the stories about the doll, but she did not believe in curses or superstitions. She had come across the doll in an old relic store and was incontinently drawn to its creepy beauty.

Lily took the doll home with her and placed it on her mantlepiece. At first, everything sounded fine. But soon strange effects started to be. The air around the doll would grow cold, and strange whispers could be heard in the nothingness of night. Lily started having agonies about the witch who had cursed the doll, and she began to feel as if she was being watched.

As the days passed, Lily's luck started to change. She lost her job, her swain left her, and her auto broke down. Each day brought further and further mischance, and Lily began to realize that the doll was the cause of all her problems.

hopeless to relieve herself of the accursed doll, Lily tried to destroy it. She smashed it with a hammer, burned it with fire, and indeed threw it into a near swash. But each time she tried to get relieve of it, the doll would ever find its way back to her.

Eventually, Lily realized that the only way to break the curse was to find the witch who had cursed the doll and supplicate for her remission. She spent weeks probing and eventually set up the witch's old cabin deep in the forestland.

Lily made her way to the cabin and knocked on the door. But no bone

answered. She tried the door, and it opened with a creak. Outside, the cabin was empty except for a single room at the reverse.

Lily made her way to the room, and as she opened the door, she was hit with a blast of cold air. The room was filled with strange vestiges and symbols, and in the center of the room was a doll that looked just like the accursed bone

.

Lily approached the doll and picked it up. As she did, she felt a swell of power inflow through her body. She knew what she had to do. She took the accursed doll and placed it coming to the one in the center of the room.

As she did, she spoke the words of the curse that had been spoken by the witch so long agone

." I curse this doll to bring mischance to anyone who possesses it."

As she spoke, she felt the curse lift from her body. The dolls both glowed with a bright light, and also they shattered into a million pieces. Lily felt a weight lifted off her shoulders, and she knew that the curse had been broken.

As she left the cabin, Lily felt as if a heavy burden had been lifted off her shoulders. She knew that the accursed doll was gone ever, and that she was eventually free of its terrible influence.

But indeed as she walked down, she could not shake the feeling that commodity was watching her, and she knew that the accursed doll would always be with her

Lily could not shake the feeling of apprehension that followed her out of the witch's cabin. She looked back at the dilapidated structure, wondering if she had truly broken the curse of the accursed doll or if it would ever find its way back to her.

As she made her way through the forestland, the wind picked up, and the trees began to sway ominously. Lily fiddled as she felt a cold breath on the reverse of her neck, and she quickened her pace.

As she surfaced from the forestland, she saw a figure standing in the middle of the road. It was dressed in tattered clothes and had a gaunt look on its face. Lily could not make out its features, but she knew that it wasn't mortal.

The figure signaled to her, and Lily knew that she should run, but her curiosity got the better of her. She approached the figure, and as she did, she realized that it was the witch who had cursed the doll.

The witch looked at her with a admixture of sadness and wrathfulness." Why did you destroy my doll?" she asked.

Lily explained that the doll had brought her nothing but mischance and that she had only sought to break the curse. The witch jounced her head and said," I understand, but you have made a grave mistake. The curse isn't broken. It has only been passed on to someone differently."

Lily felt a bite run down her chine as the consummation hit her. She had unwittingly passed the curse onto someone differently. She asked the witch how to break the curse, but the witch only laughed.

" You can not break the curse. It'll follow you until the end of your days," she said.

Lily ran from the witch, her heart racing with fear. She knew that she had made a terrible mistake and that she'd have to live with the consequences.

Over the coming many weeks, Lily's life entwined out of control. She lost her home, her musketeers, and her reason. far and wide she went, she brought mischance with her. People she knew began to die, accidents followed her every move, and she was visited by agonies of the accursed doll.

Lily knew that she had to do commodity to stop the curse. She returned to the witch's cabin, hoping to find a result. But the cabin was gone, and in its place was a graveyard. Lily knew that the witch was dead, and she was alone with the curse.

hopeless for answers, Lily turned to dark magic. She learned spells and conjurations, immolating creatures to assuage the gods. But nothing worked. The curse was too strong, and it sounded that Lily was doomed to live with it ever.

One day, as she wandered through the forestland, she stumbled upon an old tree. The tree was ancient, its dinghy twisted and gnarled. Lily approached the tree and saw that there was a small hole in its box.

commodity impelled her to reach outside, and as she did, she felt a small object. She pulled it out, and to her surprise, it was the accursed doll.

Lily knew that she had to destroy the doll formerly and for all. She took it back to her home, and with a hammer, she smashed it to pieces. As the doll shattered, Lily felt the weight of the curse lift from her body. She fell to her knees, weeping with relief.

From that day on, Lily's life returned to normal. The mischances that had agonized her faded, and she felt as if a dark pall had been lifted from her life. She knew that she had paid a high price for her curiosity, but she was thankful that she had set up a way to break the curse of the accursed doll.

But indeed as she went about her diurnal life, Lily could not help but wonder if the curse was truly gone. She knew that dark magic was important and changeable, and she stressed that the curse may come back to hang her formerly again.

As the times passed, Lily lived her life cautiously, always looking over her shoulder, staying for the curse to strike again. But it noway did. Lily grew old and failed peacefully in her sleep, noway knowing if the curse had truly been broken or if it was just biding its time, staying for the right moment to strike.

The accursed doll, shattered into pieces, lay forgotten in the debris of Lily's home. But some say that on quiet nights, when the wind howls through the trees, you can still hear the sound of the doll's horselaugh echoing through the remains, a nipping memorial of the mischance that it brought to all those who held it.

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