Village Horror Story in Hindi: In the silence of the night in Raipur village, the sound of 'Cham Cham' used to be heard and all the villagers used to get scared. It had been three months since this sound started coming, sometimes at night this sound was heard by the villagers.
On the night when this sound was heard, a member of someone's house would disappear and no trace of him would be found. The villagers suspected that a witch roamed in the village. She would definitely target some house or the other.
In summer, if someone's window was left open, someone would go missing from that house, be it a man or a child. There was a lot of panic among the villagers. As soon as night fell, everyone would close their windows and doors and sit inside.
Due to this fear the villagers were planning to leave the village.
One day the village sarpanch Thakur Surendra Singh gathered the villagers and talked to them.
head: You people are leaving the village due to fear of a witch, this way the whole village will be destroyed. We should find a solution to this problem and should not run away from our homes and fields.
Hariya: Sarpanch ji, many of us have lost our family members, now the water is above our heads. You do something otherwise we will have to go.
head: There will be no harm in panic, I have talked to Janaki Tai who lives in the next village, she practices sorcery, I have called her. Let's see what happens.
The villagers respected the Sarpanch very much. Everyone supported his statement and started waiting for Janaki Tai's arrival.
The next day, Janaki Tai came to the village dressed in black, with many big and small garlands around her neck, carrying a broom-like stick made of peacock feathers in her hand and sat under the Peepal tree in the middle of the village.
The Sarpanch and the villagers came running to him, welcomed him and served him breakfast, after which the villagers told him their problem. Hearing this, Janaki Tai said that I want to see the houses where all this happened. The villagers took them near a house. After reaching there, Janaki Tai closed her eyes and touched the door frame.
Janaki Tai: Sarpanch ji, there is a witch's presence here. It is very difficult to avoid this. I will have to worship it, I will have to control it and ask it.
head: Whatever you do, please get rid of us. Otherwise the entire village will be destroyed.
Janaki Tai: No soul harasses anyone just like that, so you too must have committed some mistake. That's what I want to know. Only then will its solution be found.
You prepare for the puja, I will come tomorrow, light the fire in the village all night and the entire village will participate in the puja. Not even a child should be left in the house, otherwise the witch will make him her target. She will not be able to do any harm to anyone in my puja.
The next day, complete preparations were made in the village and torches were placed at various places to illuminate the entire village. A Havan Kund was made in the middle of the village and all the puja items were collected.
The next day at night, Janaki Tai came to worship with four people, all of whom were wearing black clothes. The entire village was gathered there.
Janaki Tai: No one will be afraid of the witch's arrival, nor will they attack her. I will subdue him and liberate his soul.
After some time the puja started and chanting of mantras started, then a black shadow was seen on the Peepal tree in the distance. Janaki Tai tied him in mantras and called him near the Havan Kund.
With a terrible face, bloodshot eyes, big teeth, that shadow dressed in black came and sat down. The smell of a crematorium was coming from his body, like burning of a dead body.
Janaki Tai: Who are you? Why are you harassing the villagers? Where are the people who disappeared from here?
Witch: I will destroy the entire village. I killed and ate everyone.
Those whose families were missing started crying after hearing this. Hearing his crying, the witch started laughing loudly.
Janaki Tai: If you don't tell me the truth, I will incinerate you right here.
Saying this he recited a mantra which made the witch restless.
Witch: Wait, I will tell you. I used to live in this village, my name is Poonam. I did not have any children, so a Tantrik asked me to light a lamp under the Peepal tree at night, which I was doing. The villagers thought that I was practicing witchcraft. This Sarpanch and many people of the village strangled me to death in the night itself. I will take revenge from them.
Janaki Tai: Why is the Sarpanch telling this truth?
head: Tai, we made a big mistake.
Janaki Tai: They did a lot of wrong to you, now tell me where are the villagers whom you have captured? And how will you be liberated?
Witch: I will not leave anyone and will take one sacrifice from every house. Saying this she disappeared.
head: What will happen now Janaki Tai?
Janaki Tai: You have murdered an innocent woman and the entire village is stigmatized by it.
Hearing this, all the villagers got scared.
Janaki Tai: Do one thing, hammer a nail each on the door of your house, hang four green bangles on it and put a vermilion tilak in the middle of it. Due to this it will not be able to enter that house. The women of the house should do this work and take off the bangles and vermilion from their groom and hang them. No one should go out of the house at night.
All the villagers did the same. Now they used to hear the sound of chham chham but no one went missing from any house.
One day Janaki Tai reached the village to inquire about the well being of the villagers. After talking to the villagers, they found everything was fine.
Janaki Tai: All that is fine but all this will not last long. One day someone will slip out by mistake. The witch will take him with her.
head: So what should we do to get relief from this?
Janaki Tai: This soul must be freed. I will perform a puja next week for its liberation but there should not be any person from the village in that puja.
After a week, Janaki Tai was preparing to perform puja at night when the witch came there.
Witch: If you want to free me then first kill the villagers who killed me.
Janaki Tai: Forgive them now. Otherwise you will always remain wandering.
Witch: No, I will never forgive them, especially the Sarpanch.
Just then the Sarpanch comes there.
head: If you want to take my life then take it but forgive these villagers.
Janaki Tai: I had forbidden you to come out, don't you know that you have invited your death.
head: Anyway, Tai, I am dying of regrets. At least my death will save the village from being destroyed.
Witch: I was looking for you only. But seeing you repenting changed my mind. Tai, please liberate me.
Janaki Tai worships and after some time the witch's soul goes to heaven.
From that day the sound of Cham Cham was never heard in the village.
