Class 3/4
Long, long time ago, on a TALL hill beside Tanjong Pagar Secondary School, there lived many villagers who did farming. They earned a living by selling the crops they grew. However in a dark forest in the middle of the hill, there lived a sorceress who enjoyed making people’s life miserable because everyone had left her out because of her appearance that was hideous. She was an old hunchback in her 90s. Her face was filled with wrinkles, she bloodshot eyes and white frizzy hair that had never been washed.
“These people don’t know how powerful I am and they take me for granted. I will make sure they pay for their sins.” She began looking through her scrolls to find a spell to kill the villagers slowly. She started casting a spell ” abhujikarrapayakopivisvadean ” Well, she thought the spell would kill them but she was mistaken. The spell she used made the villagers cough for the rest of their lives. At about 5 am in the morning, the villagers started coughing one after another.
“Why *cough* are we all *cough* coughing?!” Then the sorceress immerged from her hiding.
“HE HE HE now u know how powerful I am. You all look pathetic now! If you want the cure, you have to follow what I say!”
The villagers said, ” what *cough* do we have to do?”
The sorceress smirked. “You have to live under me for 5 years and in the year where there will be an eclipse and I will cure all of you.” Five years passed by under the sorcerous’ control. Just as the eclipse was about to happen, she died as the eclipse was the time for her to pass on so the villagers could not be cured and had to live with the spell that was cast by the sorcerous. Therefore the hill was then called “Bukit Batok ” which is translated to ” Coughing Hill ” from Malay.
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