Curse Of The Spiders
It was the early 1500s on an island known as an Antilla, also known as the Isle Of Seven Cities and said to lie far west of Spain and Portugal, and group new settlers moved onto some cursed land that they didn’t know was cursed until it was too late. There an old legend told by the villagers that an evil voodoo queen (the villagers called her the spider queen) she was the daughter of the devil himself and brought her pet spiders with her. There was an affair between a villager and the queen. The villagers revolted against the queen after the curse and it was said that she was killed with her own spiders, and now every year the anniversary of her death, the queen comes back to rule her island where she bound to it forever. In the year 1500 the land was inhabited by gypsies and among those gypsies lived a voodoo priestess who was queen of the island, not only was she beautiful, but she also could be mean at times but she ruled fairly and kindly but cross her and could be cruel and show no mercy. All men of the village lusted after the queen; she was the most beautiful queen on the island. With the queen being a voodoo priestess, she also possessed strong, magical, evil powers, and often at night she’d be in her hut talking with the devil and worshipping him, and often sending demons to do her dirty work mostly to keep the islanders in check or to keep tabs on the village across the ocean. All of the gypsies knew not to cross the queen in fear of what she’d do to them. Gypsies are known not only for being nomads, but they’re also known for being physic and putting curses on people who have crossed them. The gypsies had made themselves a nice little village and often traded food, tea, and spices with the other villagers that dwelled on the other side of the island. It was a nice, warm, sunny day on the island the villagers were having a nice dinner gathered around a huge fire on the beach, the queen and a villager her in her hut together, and the villager’s wife went looking for him and when the wife found the queen and her husband having an affair she grew extremely mad with rage. The wife snuck into the hut grabbing loose, long black hair, that was on the floor, and a piece of her husband’s hair she found on the bed, and she cursed them both. The queen she cursed her and made her hair fall out; the queen was furious. The queen found that the wife had cursed her, but she cursed the wife and the whole island. She grabbed her ingredients, used her powerful magic, and chanted a spell from her book, she cursed the entire island with spiders, the sky grew dark, a thunderstorm rolled in, it was violent storm, the spiders were crawling all over everywhere, they crawled from the jungle, out of the mouths of the villagers, out their huts, out of their clothes, the island was covered in spiders. Spiders of every size, spiders of every species. The gypsy wife put a curse on her husband causing him to go stark raving mad. The islanders were running yelling and screaming, some of the diving into the ocean and swimming just to get away from the spiders. The queen sent one particular spider she sent was a huge black widow the biggest ever recorded for that time and it headed straight for the gypsy woman it bit her right on her leg, the venom killed her slowly as it navigated through veins, through her bloodstream, and eventually killing her. Moments after spiders covered the gypsy’s body covering her in a webby cocoon; the queen drug the body and placed deep in a cave where the body remained hidden, the most of the islanders fled to the neighboring island, the ones that didn’t die or drown, most of the islanders died that day and will forever haunt that island. The remaining islanders who stayed and fought off the spiders were very angry with the queen for cursing the island they lived on and it’s said they tied her up in the jungle and let her own spiders eat her and drain her dry. Now her spirit haunts that jungle and the cursed island. The villagers asked for witch doctor’s help to reverse the curse the witch doctor said because it was done by a voodoo priestess only she could undo the spell and since she was dead it was the curse couldn’t be broken. They even tried setting the island on fire and the fire wouldn’t stay lit. The remaining villagers fled to the neighboring island where they live in peace. Some villagers say that at night at the time of the witch’s death she comes and haunts the villagers that kill her, wherever she goes her spiders follow her. Now the island of Atilla is still cursed till this day and no living creatures humans or otherwise live on it and it said that even the fruit will have spiders coming out it, the island still has spiders over every size, and species living on it. If you visit the island you will yourself will become cursed by the spider queen and have spiders appear out of no where. Locals who are brave enough to visit the island experiences, fear, nausea, you’re followed, attachment, the feeling of spiders crawling on them, chanting, spider bites, seeing the spider queen herself, seeing the wife that got killed will appear in the village and her hut. Some say that they have been cursed themselves and the spider queen and her spiders followed them home and killed them or anyone close to them, the legend of the spider queen is told at bonfires, over campfires, and told during Halloween.