My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

During one of his hunting trips, the narrator, who is now in his twenties, discovers an antelope. He attempts to shoot the antelope, but the animal turns into a beautiful woman. He worries that this woman is actually the flash-eyed mother playing a trick on him, but he realizes that she is harmless. She asks him to marry her because of her desire to marry an earthly person. He initially refuses, but he soon decides to follow her back to her town. She tells him that “it is a nameless town” and takes him to her house, where she lives alone (103).

The woman gives the narrator earthly clothes and feeds him the same kind of food he received from the first ghosts he encountered. He asks her how she came to acquire this clothing, and she tells him that her father’s town of ghosts allows for “earthly witches” to have meetings on their land, which is where she got the clothes. Her father “is the most powerful wizard among all the wizards in both the Bush of Ghosts and in the earthly towns” (105), and he hosts many meetings with witches and wizards from towns of ghosts as well as earthly towns.