Demon Summoning for Beginners
By Cora Buhlert
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When observing a magical ritual in the woods, make sure to take precautions…
If you try to summon a demon to grant you your heart's fondest desire, you'd better get your Latin right…
When studying ancient grimoires, it's never a good idea to actually read the contents out loud or you might just cause the end of the world…
Following your grandma's heirloom recipe might just conjure up something other than marinara sauce…
Four short humorous horror tales of rituals gone very wrong by Hugo finalist Cora Buhlert of 5800 words or approx. 20 print pages altogether.
Cora Buhlert
Cora Buhlert was born and bred in North Germany, where she still lives today – after time spent in London, Singapore, Rotterdam and Mississippi. Cora holds an MA degree in English from the University of Bremen and is currently working towards her PhD. Cora has been writing, since she was a teenager, and has published stories, articles and poetry in various international magazines. When she is not writing, she works as a translator and teacher.
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Demon Summoning for Beginners - Cora Buhlert
Impartial Observer
pinstripeYou sneak through the woods, careful not to step on any cracking twigs or rustling leaves that might give your location away. After all, you want to observe the ritual unnoticed, like a good researcher should.
As you approach the gathering place, you switch off your flashlight. You stop and wait for your eyes to adjust to the darkness. Gradually, trees begin to emerge from the darkness, followed by branches, leaves, roots. And above it all the full moon, half shrouded in clouds.
You hear the chanting before you see anything. It echoes through the forest, rhythmically pulsing like a heartbeat.
Closer and closer you creep, your phone camera at the ready. After all, you don’t want to miss a second of this. A pagan ritual in the local woods — not faux hippy New Age paganism — but the real deal. Ancient rituals and traditions that predate Christianity, handed down from mother to daughter to granddaughter over the centuries.
The paper you’ll write about this ritual will be your breakthrough in the world of anthropology. It will win you tenure and recognition, it will make or break you. Once more, you check the phone battery, hoping that it won’t give out on you now.
The closer you creep, the louder the chanting gets. You can make out words now, though you can’t understand them, because the language is older than anything spoken in these parts. So you begin to record audio. The linguists will have a field day with this.
Between the trees, you see a flicker of lights. The cultists are carrying storm lanterns. The chanting is even louder now and seemingly coming from everywhere at once.
You creep even closer. You spy figures in hooded robes, each bearing a lantern. You get out your phone and hit record
.
From between the branches of the trees, you watch as the figures form a circle around an altar of roughly hewn stones. You watch as they step forward one by one and set down their lanterns on the altar. You watch the pool of light around the altar grow brighter and brighter as more lanterns are added.
The chanting reaches a frenzied climax now. To your own surprise, you realise that your heartbeat is hammering in tune with