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Grand Father’s Eye – Short Horror Story in English

To all our fellow readers, we are bringing you a very short horror story for Halloween in 2023. The story’s name is God Father’s Eye and the below story is completely in English.

Grand Father’s Eye – Short Horror Story in English

Yanachek was alone in the world. One day, he met an old grandfather sitting outside a cottage who had empty holes where his eyes had been.

“Do you have any work for me?” asked Yanachek.

“I need someone to take my hungry goats to the meadow,” said the blind man, so Yanachek agreed to tend to his goats.

The blind old man was grateful. “But don’t go near the hill in the woods,” he warned, “or the Yezinkas will catch you. Those wicked witches stole my eyes!”

“Don’t worry about me,” said Yanachek cheerfully, “I can look after myself”

At first, Yanachek grazed the goats in the meadow nearby, but one morning, he decided to find them better grass to eat on the hill.“I’m not afraid of any Yezinkas,” he thought.

First, he cut three long bramble branches and wound them around the crown of his hat. Then he drove the goats through the wood to the hill.

As Yanachek sat watching the goats graze, a beautiful maiden stepped out of the woods. “Here’s an apple for you, shepherd boy,” she said.

Yanachek guessed that she must be a Yezinka out to trick him.

“No thank you,” he replied.“My master gives me all the apples I want.”

Seeing that he couldn’t be persuaded, the maiden vanished.

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A short while later, another maiden appeared and offered him a red rose.

Yanachek refused it. “My master’s garden is full of roses,” he said. At these words, the maiden vanished.

Then a third maiden appeared, carrying a golden comb. “Let me comb your hair shepherd boy,” she said.

Yanachek took off his hat. However, when the maiden came close, he quickly unwound a bramble branch and tied her hands with it, for he knew that a Yezinka cannot move if she is struck by a bramble.

“Help, sisters!” cried the Yezinka. The other two maidens came running, but Yanachek was ready with more bramble branches and quickly tied ‘them up too. Then he ran home to fetch the old man.

Yanachek led the blind man through the wood to the hill where the Yezinkas were struggling in vain. “Tell me where my master’s eyes are,” said Yanachek.

The first maiden agreed to show him. She led them along the bank of a deep river to a cave where she and her sisters had collected an enormous pile of eyes.

She picked out a pair for the old man.

However, when he looked through them the old man gasped in horror. “I see dark treetops, moths, and bats,” he cried.

“These are not my eyes; they are owls’ eyes! Take them out!”

So Yanachek took them out and threw the maiden into the river.

Then the second maiden chose a pair of eyes from the pile. When the old man looked through them, he shook with terror.

“I see tangled bushes, snapping teeth, and hot red tongues,” he cried.“These are not my eyes; they are wolves’ eyes! Take them out!”

So Yanachek took them out and threw the second maiden into the river.

Then the third maiden chose a pair of eyes. When the old man looked through them, he trembled with fear.

“I see murky water, swirling weeds, and flashing fins,” he cried. “These are not my eyes, they are fishes’ eyes! Take them out!”

But the third maiden didn’t want to follow her sisters into the river. She begged Yanachek to try another pair.

This time, the old man looked and smiled. At last, I see the hill and my goats and my good friend Yanachek,” he said.
“These are my own dear eyes!”

So Yanachek released the Yezinka, and then he and the old man returned home to live happily together.

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