Possesion

Bill’s disappeared upstairs with the little sickly girl, but me, I’m here to see the blind woman. I hear she did it on purpose—tore the donkey tail out of the earth and smeared its milky sap directly in her eyes. It must of stung her hands and face badly and maybe left marks on her fingers. Near Santa Fe, men, women, and children are always getting possessed of this sort of ecstasy and seem to take pleasure in swallowing poison and fire and stepping on scorpions and suchlike.