Journal of John Winchester (Supernatural)

May 2

Sammy is five today. Thank God. He almost didn’t make it.

I could blame Dean, but it’s my fault. There’s enough

blame to go around. I missed the kill, and I left Dean watching Sam, and he couldn’t pull the trigger when he needed to. I

haven’t taught him well enough. If he is weak like that again,

my boys will die . . . but what kind of father am I to put a

nine-year-old boy in a situation where he might have to kill to

protect his brother?

I’m the kind of father I have to be. I’m the kind of father

who teaches his boys that no man or monster can kill their

mother and get away with it. I’m the kind of father who

shows them that when it comes to family you go to

the ends of the earth to put things right

We’re in Wisconsin, so we might as well

skip over to Blue Earth and check in Jim

He’ll want to know about this, and maybe

it’ll do me good to talk to him.

Reminder : Tell Jim about the Hausa,

an African tribe whose witches keep

magical stones in their stomachs. They

eat their victims’ souls slowly, causing

the victim to waste away and die.

Also, they can turn into dogs. Another African witch, sukuyadyo or obayif bind victims magically and drain their blood or life force. Sukuyadyo can change their skins, hiding their real skin under a pot or mortar in their house and taking on the appearance of another. Related to skinwalker, also variations on medieval European vampire legends. Obayifo transformed into a ball of light to drain life force. (Will-o’-the-wisp.) Time for Sammy to learn how to read.

Jiangshi: "Hopping corpse." Reanimated corpses out of Chinese lore that kill living creatures to feed creatures to feed on spiritus vitae they are possibly restricted to roadways but I’m working from a story

Bobby Singer told me here. Never seen one.