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Clocks.

All of the clocks in my house have stopped ticking. Not one of them shows the correct time. They did not stop at the same time but all of them stopped within one hour of midnight. My wristwatch and my pocket watch also stopped within the hour of midnight. I am not a superstitious person but this was indeed very strange. I live alone and I close all of the shutters on the windows also I slide in the heavy bolts on the back and front doors before I go to bed. No one could have got into the house through the doors and windows and this stopping of my clocks and watches could not have been done by magic means as my house is under the magical protection of Her Majesty Queen Feeanna, Queen of all the fairies. I have no guests staying with me and the thought that someone might have broken in was annoying but as the doors and windows show no signs of breaking and entering by a third person or should I say house breaker or burglar, it was one of those mysteries that happen from time to time. I turned on my radio and waited for the time signal at the nine o’clock news. I set first my wristwatch then went around the house and started all the clocks and watches off again.

I spent the rest of the day doing a few odd jobs in the garden. I cleaned out one of the cupboards; I had been meaning to do so for some time now but had not gotten around to it. The day passed by normally and I went up to bed at half past nine in the evening. I dropped off to sleep with the noise of thunder in the distance. I awoke at half past eleven and found myself down in the kitchen stopping the kitchen clock on the wall. How I had managed to get up and go downstairs without being awake I do not know. I then looked at the other clocks and watches in the house. I had stopped most of these that is all but my wristwatch, which was on my bedside table. Making myself a cup ofcocoa I thought long and hard, I had a problem or rather two problems why do I walk in my sleep? There have been no incidents of sleep walking in my family, and what have I got against time and clocks and watches, in general? I decided to go the very next day to see my Doctor, I would be glad to have his advice and perhaps he can recommend some tablets to stop my night wanderings.

My Doctor gave me a thorough medical check over and told me that I was very healthy for a man of my age. There was nothing to worry about as long as I was careful not to have any objects in the way that might make me fall when sleep walking. Feeling a little better I made my way home suddenly there was a strange sensation in my head. Some one or some thing, was trying to get into my brain. I was now fully awake and looked around me it was then that I saw a tall woman she was staring at me, it was she that was trying to enter my brain. Now my guard was up and I blocked all attempts from her side to get at me through my brain. The woman then vanished she was no more there where I had seen her. What did she want with me? Was she the one that was causing my sleepwalking and my stopping of all clocks and watches in my house?

Now fully on guard I walked quickly back to the house and sent a mental picture to Shamus my Leprechaun friend. As I entered my house Shamus was there sitting on the kitchen table, legs crossed as was his habit. “What can I do to help you my friend?”  he asked. I told Shamus of my sleepwalking and of my stopping all of the clocks and watches in my house. Shamus told me to go to bed as usual and he would be on guard to see that no harm came to me. I sleep walked again during the night but Shamus steered me away from the clocks and watches. In the morning after breakfast we went out I walked quite openly and Shamus followed me like a shadow. I had given Shamus some of my magic dust with the instruction to throw it over the woman if she started one of her mental attacks. I did not see Shamus but felt the presence of the woman in black. She started her attack silently suggesting that I now not only stopped all clocks and watches in my house but also that I leave all of the windows unbarred and the front and back door wide open. I heard a cry and saw the woman disappearing in the distance. Shamus had thrown a handful of magic dust over her. We met up and I told Shamus of the woman’s attack and that I leave the doors and windows open. We came to the conclusion that she wanted to steal something that was in my house, but what? Then it dawned upon me the only thing for her to steal that would bring in an income, was the ebony stick, that when cleaned would leave a small bar of gold in return. This was on the sideboard in my front room everything else in the house was not worth much and it would not have paid for the woman to break in. That she went to so much trouble by openly attacking me showed that she was fairly desperate. I have not seen or heard of the women since and Shamus spent a couple of days with me to make sure that she did not come back. This is another true story about my friend Shamus the Leprechaun.