Maybe the Good Woman can do the interchange of souls. This story explains what is the interchange of souls, and how it is different from reincarnation.
Do all living things have souls? Do all animals possess souls? Are the souls of humans and critters interchangeable? Are there specialists who can perform the interchange of souls? Can souls of different people or different life forms be interchanged?
Certain cultures and religions believe in reincarnation. After death, a soul may be reborn into a new body. What form it takes depends on its previous life. If it did many good deeds and has accrued many good points, It may be reborn into a body that is placed higher in the hierarchy of life.
The hierarchy ranges from low life forms that crawl on the ground, to low ranking animals and then the highest is the humans.
If a soul has been reborn into a different body, why doesn’t it remember its past life? It is because its memory has been wiped clean.
After death, the soul has to walk along a path, where a bowl of special soup is offered to it. After drinking the magic portion, its memory is deleted. The soul will not recall anything of its past life.
There are other theories on how the during rebirth, the old memories are deleted. Each life is lived with a fresh start, on a clean slate.
There are many problems with psychological influences, bias, emotional baggage and memories. These will be a heavy weight. A person can’t live one life if there are memories of hundreds of lives constantly in the brain.
Once in a while, there are children who talk about their past lives. Something different happened to them and their memories were not erased/ forgotten.
The internet is full of theories and she had been doing her research.
The Good Woman has taken in as much as she can stomach. Her next door neighbors have been abusive, bullying her to blackmail.
She has been calm, ignoring their violations of boundaries and down playing their transgressions. They talk loudly about threats to frighten her. Sometimes, they carry out their threats. Every night, they talk and carry out magic spells to disturb her. They awake her after one hour of her sleep, to scare her. Then after she falls asleep again, they wake her up after 2 hours and continue this cycle of waking her, after every 2 hours.
It is time for her to try a different approach.
She has always kept clean, empty bottles in a small cardboard carton. The glass sparkles. In a one, there’s a sweet; a toffee. In another, a currency of a moderate denomination.
She went out to her garden. She soon found the critters. She transplanted two into a pot of soil. She placed an empty pot over it, securing the placement of the critters by preventing their escape.
She thought of doing her own blackmail, to broker peace for herself. She would try to capture the souls of the naughty Wizard and Witch Pair #1, imprison them in other innocent bodies like critters who can’t disturb her, and transfer the simple souls into the human bodies. She could leave the human bodies devoid of souls – they could expire, or move about like zombies.
She had no inkling how to work the spell. She would just say the words and hope she could invoke the power to do it for her.
What is the point of this interchange of souls? The wizard and witch’s souls are naughty and do mischief to her. The souls of simple critters might not think of complex patterns of disturbances. She wanted to try the interchange of souls between critters and humans. She thought that when simple souls entered the bodies of complex humans, they would remain simple and live peacefully.
Does anyone believe she could actually do all that?
Maybe the exchange of souls can not happen. It is more like a psychological attack to frighten the enemies who are always spying.
Disclaimer –
The theories of reincarnation are well known in some religions like Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism and cultures. However, the interchange of souls, sans rebirth, is lesser known and maybe purely fiction.
Related:
How former human souls live as critter souls, link coming soon
How former critter souls are living in human bodies – https://artmater.com/how-critter-souls-are-living-in-human-bodies/
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