Saturday Matinee - Mother to Daughter

There was a time when the witches of Salem were hunted, tortured, tried and burned at the stake....but none of the accused were guilty....
The real witches cast their spells to prevent their discovery....and they continued to do so as the decades passed and the hysteria died away.
Witchcraft was an old tradition....predating Christianity by millennia....it's origins lost in the mists of time....
It was carried on still even after the Salem madness, the knowledge and power passed from mother to daughter....it was a feminine power that no male could ever hope to understand....
Mostly the witches just went about their lives without having to use the power....but they always made sure that no man ever mastered one of them....

"Did you mix it all like I told you Samantha?"
"Yes Mommy....I was very careful....just like you told me...."
"That's my good girl.....and you Tabitha....have you been reading the invocation as I taught you?"
"Oh yes Mommy I read it over and over as Sammy mixed the stuff up.....is this going to make Daddy better?"
"It will make him change girls, he won't dare be mean anymore.....in fact.....it will make him into a girl......"
"Daddy will be a girl!!!!!"
"Yes Samantha!!!"
"A real live girl....just like me?"
"Yes Tabitha.....a little older perhaps.....but yes, just like you!!!"

Upstairs in the attic Nathaniel strained at the bonds that held him to the wooden cross....he groaned at the pain....for days he'd felt his body changing....his bones grinding against each other as they moved.......his muscles tearing and re-knitting themselves into new arrangements.....and most alarming....he'd seen his....bosom....begin to grow...and the pain in his nether regions was almost too  much to bear!!!!
She was doing this to him....poisoning him with her unholy potions!!!!
How had he not caught her earlier....he had seen some of the signs but he hadn't put them together until that night that he had caught her with the neighbor....the poor man was obviously entranced....why else would he lie with another man's wife?
But before he could denounce her she had blown a puff of some ungodly powder at him and all went black!!!!
It was the pain that woke him....his body wracked with agony....couldn't anyone hear....wasn't there anyone to save him?

"Why does he cry out like that Mommy? Is he sick?"
"Yes Samantha....Daddy is very sick and it's up to us to save him!!!"
"By making him be a girl?"
"Yes Tabitha.....once he becomes a girl he'll be so much better off!!!"
"Is it time for him to take more of his medicine Mommy?"
"Yes my Dears....now go on upstairs and have him drink this....keep stirring it all the while....And Tabitha Dear, the incantations must be read aloud....all the while he's drinking it....that's very important.....Samantha....you know where the funnel is if he doesn't want to take it....."
"But aren't you coming Mommy?"
"No Dear.....it's important that the last of the potion be given by someone who loves him with a pure heart!"
"But Mommy.....isn't that you?"
"Just you two run along now.....by tomorrow we'll be helping your Daddy into his first petticoats....won't that be fun?"
"Oh Yes!!!!"
"He'll be like a dolly for us to play with!!!!"
"Yes Dears....he'll be our toy...."
"Now Go....I have an errand to run.....I have something for neighbor John that I'm sure he'll enjoy!!!!"
"Okay Mommy!!!!"
"We'll take care of poor Daddy for you Mommy...."