Three women in sackcloth robes were busy in holding a fourth woman bent before a birthing rail.

"In the name of the father, the son and the Holy Ghost, bless our sister with the giving of life so that this soul may go forth to do your bidding. In the name of our holy mother watch out for this one coming into the world…”

Then there was a cry. “It's a girl, a beautiful baby girl!”

The mother receives the child from the sisters and looks lovingly at her. The mother’s loving expression turns to horror.

“What's happening to my child? Oh my God! What is happening to me?”

Shadows snake across the wall of the small chamber. The young mother grabs a knife from the table as one of the Sisters runs to take the child. While passing the child back to the midwife the sister puts herself between the new-born and the knife and is thusly cleaved. The mother screams again hacking at the writhing invaders. Dark red blood is spattered and sprayed across the room in a macabre fountain. For fear of the child's life, the midwife takes the baby and runs. With bleeding outstretched arms the young mother screams and screams.

ISBN-13: 978-1508943839