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TITLE: The Tale of Jean Dubroise | Previous Challenge Entry
By Teresa Lee Rainey
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Tall tales of evil wait.
For those who wander from their faith
Can claim the cruelest fate.
There was a man named Jean Dubroise.
He never worked a lick.
Yet lived a prosperous life, he did.
What was his wicked trick?
Jean had no friends or family.
No help to work his land.
What strange and secret sorcery
Would work at Jean’s command?
Strange sounds came round, sure every night,
From Jean Debroise’s estate.
His neighbors knew a Godly man
Should not still be awake.
Most neighbors would avoid Jean’s place
And shun him in the town
Yet on a dreadful, drunken night
Poor Alphonse wandered ‘round.
Poor Alphonse thought through Jean’s estate
He’d dare through darkness creep,
And brave the blistering evil noise
While Godly men did sleep.
Soon overhead a noise was heard.
A huge canoe flew by
And landed by Jean’s lovely home
Where Alphonse hid to spy.
The Devil leapt from that canoe
While wielding one huge whip.
He snapped his whip and called his crew
Werewolves worked without lip.
Alphonse supposed those werewolves were
Men under magic’s spell.
He also saw that Evil Jean
Had sold his soul to hell.
Now Alphonse prayed the Devil’s crew
Not find his hiding place.
At last the workers flew away.
There was no time to waste.
Quickly he rushed to his town priest
And told of what he’d seen.
His priest devised a sacred plan
To cleanse that evil scene.
With Evil Jean in town that day
The priest sent several men
To sprinkle Jean’s entire estate
And rid the place of sin.
Those Godly men stood watch that night.
The Devil flew back ‘round,
But could not stand on sacred soil.
He leapt straight off the ground.
Sad, frightened werewolves tried to flee.
The Devil’s mood was black.
Believing Jean had pulled this trick,
Caught him and won’t come back.
The townsmen caught the tortured wolves
And brought them to the priest.
A knife prick made those werewolves men
Who fell straight to their knees.
But what became of Jean Dubroise?
Still no one knows the toll.
Perhaps, with Jean, the Devil flew
Down through The Devil’s Hole.
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I must give credit to the author, S.E. Schlosser, at http://www.americanfolklore.net/ata.html
for the original re-telling of this Quebec, Canada spooky story.