True Unexplained Phenomena and Tales of the Unknown by Brad Steiger

Author:Brad Steiger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Published: 2012-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

The Terrible Secret of the Soul Eaters

In 1968, a British anthropologist named Boltan Simmons claimed to be the first tribal outsider to have witnessed the awesome powers of the Mayaxa Tochlan cult of “soul eating” Guatemalan Indians.

The Mayaxa Tochlan are the object of mind-rotting fear among the jungle dwellers upon whom they prey. Their power stems from the legend that they have discovered the secret of life eternal and may not be harmed by mortals, who live only to serve their wills.

Translated roughly, Mayaxa Tochlan means “Take Soul Life,” and to the Guatemalans, this is exactly the power with which the cult has been endowed.

The Tochlan live in dense jungles surrounding villages; there natives steal a precarious living from the ungenerous earth. In each cult there are 13 men, many of them reported to be more than 100 years old, who are kept youthful through that incredible span of life by draining the vital forces from a ritual victim each year.

Through the power of fear they have instilled in the natives, the cults extract one child each year from the nearby tribes to be the victim of their psychic cannibalism. The frightened village children must draw lots each year to determine who among them will go to the camp of the Tochlan, never to return.

While for years stories of the soul-eating clan had circulated among Europeans who lived along the coastline cities, few ever took the stories seriously, until the summer of 1968 when Simmons was able to persuade a native acquaintance to take him to the camp of a Tochlan cult.

Wishing to put the cult members on notice that he had strange powers of his own, Simmons injected morphine into the arms of several Tochlan leaders. When the astonishing numbness crept through their limbs, Simmons told them that he could take all the spirit from their body if he so wished.

Convinced they were dealing with a magician every bit as powerful as themselves, the Tochlan offered to permit Simmons to witness the strange ritual of eating souls—if he would, in turn, tell them more of his powers.

Delighted to strike the bargain, Simmons spent the next several days making notes, as the Tochlan prepared for their ceremony. Later, he would wish he had never been a part of what took place.

The ritual opened with the choosing of the victim who would lose his soul to the cult. The scientist began to grow uneasy when he saw the real terror that churned through the small girl the tribe had selected to accompany the Tochlan to their secret place.

When the cult reached the site where the ceremony was to be held, the whimpering child was stripped naked and bound with small ropes to a mat woven of jungle palms. Though the child pleaded to be allowed to return home, her tears were greeted by a sharp slap from the clan leader to remind her that it was the way of her tribe that brought her there and that such things were inevitable.

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