What I understood about the story was that there was these two cousins and a few other girls. But back then children weren't allowed to play with toy or play games because it showed a sign of idle. The cousins live in a house together and that they have a slave that cleans the house for them. The lady who cleaned there house entertained the cousins and the other girls with magic and stories of her home back in Barbados. Then the girls started to have strange behavior such as twitching and screaming, the Doctor said it was caused by witch craft . Then one day in church as the pastor was reading a bible verses then all of a sudden the girls fell to the floor and started to freak out. Then the towns' people begged they to tell who cursed they they.