Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-24946232-20140617000101

I want to do another Pasta based on South African legends. Below is a rough idea of what I'm going for:

My Great Aunt was the first person to tell me about Naglopers (or Night Walkers in English). The legend of Naglopers came from the fireside stories of the Hottentots. They were Africans who had devoted their lives to darkness and who adorned themselves with the exhumed remains of salvaged corpses. Naglopers would perform evil rites in the wilderness and commune with forces beyond for guidance in their malevolent intentions. My Aunt told me a harrowing tale of a gentlemen who sought out a coven of Naglopers in the 1800’s (while the Boer War was in full swing). According to my Aunty, the Englishman found what he was looking for and disappeared to his family. After his disappearance a few letters where received by the man’s family. These letters were mostly incomprehensible, but certain phrases and sentences outlined a descent down a dark and twisted path.

I dont know whether to write a first person encounter of an encounter with a Nagloper or to attempt to write out the letters from the 19th Century Englishman to his family...

I want to do one or the other because I want to write a relatively short Pasta.

 