The Past of the Magic Stick

Can three pieces of paper burn a corpse to ashes? Are the beautiful azaleas all over the mountain dead babies? Ducks cannot be kept in water tanks. Will raising crickets next to the stove kill people? A cow barks at night as a warning, or a stray cat cries at its grave? The python blocking the road repays the favor and saves people? In an era when electric lights were not yet commonplace, were all the horror stories of old people false? … All the absurdity is in the book. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.