Examining the wound, Doc realises it's too late, the man is on death's door and removing the knife would only hasten his end. Doc manages to rouse Cuzra enough for you to hear, in broken English, what fate befell him.
"I hear the striga’s Sabbat outside my house. I hear many children and a man... I am thinking he is Sheriff Spencer. I crawl like dog through thickets. I see... I see...terrible things, many children dance and sing around hill. I see Mrs. Carmichael lying on the altar
stone, she is alive, and her little Susie...that child of the Devil...she holds her momma’s hand and she smiles at her. A man at the altar...his back is to me...he keeps cutting on Mrs. Carmichael but she just stared...stared at her daughter. She didn’t scream until the end. Until her own Susie stabbed her in the heart. Then from the trees…came...came a devil. It was a blasphemy on God’s world...and the little children...they ran to it like it was family. Dancing around it and singing.
Another was brought up to the altar and killed...and another devil come out of the woods. They do this for a long time. I black out and wake with rain stinging me.
Most children gone...most devils gone. I go back home, get hammer, then wait till all leave. I smash stones but striga children return...they strike me but I strike them too. This rain... I think... I think God sends this rain to wash away this evil. Like...Noah, yes?"
