Madeline's Nightmare

The other night, Madeline came into our room in the middle of the night and said that she had a bad dream. I walked her back to her bed and asked about the dream and she told me it involved scarecrows. I asked for details.

Madeline was walking down a yellow path and there was a tree in the middle of the path. She had to climb through the tree, and as she did so, crows starting flying in a circle above her head. This made her turn around and go back the other way.

Then Madeline was inside a "haunted house" that was off of the path. There was a little girl in the haunted house who was banging on glass cabinets, trying to break the glass to get to some breakable statues in the cabinets, so that she could break the statues.

Then Madeline, Cyndy and Sam were sitting on a bench, outside of the haunted house, reading a book. About 20 yards away, Madeline saw 2 "scarecrows" who were dressed in black and had black faces. She knew that they were scarecrows because they had straw sricking out and scarecrow hats. These black scarecrows were marching and carrying "plows", which are long sticks with a ball on the end and a blade coming off of the ball. (After some discussion, I realized that the "plows" were actually scythes.)

While Madeline was watching the scarecrows, the wind started blowing and Cyndy turned around and looked scared.....

That is when Madeline woke up and came into our room. Scary stuff.