Chapter 8-The Ankou
This is a sample Chapter of the new book The Necklace Storm. The full version of the book is available at Amazon. Just Search The Necklace Storm in Amazon books The Ankou The Ankou had always been and will remained the legend of death. It was the controller and collector of the dead, and unfortunately there was more than one representative of the Ankou. It, or he, commonly rode a charcoal two-wheeled funeral cart with a languishing black horse to gather the eternal and lost dead spirits. These were the spirits of the insane, the murderers and criminals who had no destination, so the Ankou collected them for his ever-widening control and influence. These were future ghosts for wreaking fear upon men. He commonly wore a hooded black cloak over his skeletal body and often carried a scythe. In many places, he was called “the grim reaper” or just “death,” but in these parts, he was known as the Ankou. Sometimes he had a thin layer of skin, as did the one on this night. Death didn’t