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The Crimson Ritual

The village elder, a woman with milky-white eyes named Martha, tells Julian that the soil of Oakhaven requires a "gift" every fifty years to stay fertile. Julian laughs it off as local superstition. However, that night, he wakes up to find a straw doll exactly like the ones on the tree sitting on his chest. It has his camera strap around its neck.

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