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5 min readOn a moonlit moor, a man fights a ghost that can tear flesh and laugh with inhuman hatred. The ghost is solid enough to kill, yet insubstantial enough to pass through a sword blade. The man wins not with weapons, but with something else entirely.
The curse of the moor road
Solomon Cain, a gaunt Puritan traveler, is warned by a terrified village boy not to take the shorter moor road to Torkertown. The boy explains that a "foul whore" haunts the path, and no one who has encountered it at night has survived. The victims are found "bruised and torn." Cain, whose "blood quickened" at the prospect of danger, dismisses the warning. He sees the curse as a challenge from Satan, one he is bound to confront. "A strong man is needed to combat Satan in his might," he says, and sets out across the moor as the sun sets.
The fight against a shadow
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:00) **Solomon Cain is warned against the Moor Road** - A breathless youth intercepts the traveler Solomon Cain at a crossroads, begging him to take the longer swamp road instead of the direct moor road.
- 2 (04:47) **Cain enters the moor and hears the demonic laughter** - As the sun sets, Cain strides onto the barren moor, armed with sword and pistols, and is soon met by a strange, eerie echo.
- 3 (07:22) **The first victim staggers to Cain's feet** - Cain hears a short, terrible struggle, and then a gore-covered, frightful thing that was once a man reels out of the shadows and falls dead at his feet.
- 4 (11:29) **Cain fights the ghostly fiend** - Cain fires his pistols and draws his rapier, but his blade passes through the creature with "no solid resistance," while the thing tears at him with "dagger-like claws."
- 5 (15:05) **Cain confronts Ezra the Miser** - Cain, bandaged and claw-marked, arrives at the hut of old Ezra in the swamp, accompanied by a crowd of villagers.
- 6 (18:58) **The skeleton of Gideon is revealed** - The villagers drag the struggling Ezra out onto the moor to a great oak tree, where a youth climbs up and retrieves a man's skeleton from a crevice, its skull cleft.
- 7 (22:53) **Ezra is bound to the oak at sunset** - Cain pronounces doom, stating that only the "talons of him you slew" will satiate Gideon's ghost, and the villagers bind the shrieking miser to the tree.
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