“Your hurting me,” Anna says. “Let go! I can’t breath!” The girl’s grip around Anna’s increases in strength. Anna throws the girl to the floor. The girl bangs her head and is dazed. Anna bends down to check on her. The girl leaps at Anna again. They wrestle on the floor. “Who are you?” Anna shouts at her. “Let me see what’s round your neck.”
The child has a talisman-horse necklace that connects her to the skeleton behind the wall. It was in the book and in the old documents in the box. Anna knows the child is a witch and the child is her mother. And Anna is turning into her mother. She is possessed. She has to kill the child. Anna is becoming the woman in the painting. She has inherited the curse as well as the house. The girl runs for the cellar. Anna pursues her.
