Fatal Glass Eye
Excerpted from Spooky New England
retold by S.E. Schlosser
My friend Liverpool Jarge was a small man, wiry and tough, but soft-spoken. Jarge had one glass eye that was an ugly shade of blue which clashed something terrible with his real eye, which was brown. Then one day Jarge met up with a glassblower, a real artist, who make him a special red eye with a star. After that he started collecting glass eyes. They were the fanciest things you ever did see, with stars and pretty stripes and more colors than any real eyes could ever have.I went with Jarge when he placed his next order. By that time, he had so many glass eyes that he was hard to please. So I kidded Jarge that he should get an evil eye. Right away the glassblower said he could make a glass eye that was hollow so it could be filled with deadly poison. Jarge was as pleased as punch, sayin’ that a man never knew when he might get to the place where he’d want to commit suicide, and what could be easier than to pop the eye into his mouth and bite down?
Well, me and Jarge signed onto the same ship, and Jarge’s new eye was delivered the day before we set sail. What a creepy eye it was, too—the perfect evil eye. It was made up of rings of color that narrowed into a single red spot. If you looked at it just right, the colors ran together and the red spot popped out and would scare the life outta you. It was hollow, too, like the man promised, and filled with a white liquid.
Jarge tried that evil eye on everyone on board ship—includin’ me. Scared the bejesus outta me, and I’d already seen the blasted thing. ’Course, all of us told him to lay off or we’d brain him. All of us ’cept a little Cockney feller name of Bell.
Everyone called Bell “Ding Dong” on account of his name. Bell nearly shriveled up with fright each time Jarge appeared with the glass eye. Jarge was tickled to death by Ding Dong Bell’s reaction and took to plaguing the life outta him, putting the “evil eye” on him whenever he passed until Ding Dong truly thought he was bewitched.
So the other men told Ding Dong Bell that he had to steal the evil eye. ’Course, Jarge overheard them and he kept the eye hidden from Ding Dong. Turned out that the harder the eye was to steal, the more Ding Dong believed that stealing it was the only way to lift his “curse”. Finally, Jarge started wearing the evil eye all the time—to protect it, he claimed, though in truth it was to torment Ding Dong.
One day while we was docked in Port Said, Jarge went aloft on a footrope to scrape a spar. Well, something musta fetched loose, ’cause suddenly I heard a yell, and when I turned around, Jarge was plummeting forty feet headfirst onto the deck. Cracked his skull open like an eggshell and his evil eye came rolling out.
This was Ding Dong Bell’s chance. He darted out from a corner and grabbed up the eye. When he saw the mate running toward us, he popped the eye into his mouth to hide it from the mate. In less than a minute, ol’ Ding Dong Bell started shivering and fell dead on the deck, right beside poor Jarge. He’d accidentally bit into the eye and swallowed the poison hidden inside.
What with Jarge and Ding Dong both being dead, I figured maybe there was something in that evil eye business after all, and I was real glad it was gone.
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Posted by: Anonymous | November 17, 2010 11:37 AM
LOL! That was actualy funny how Bell acidentaly bit into it.:D
Posted by: Anonymous | November 17, 2010 11:43 AM
Great Story!
Posted by: Nelson Wally | November 17, 2010 10:20 PM
creepy
Posted by: Anonymous | November 18, 2010 03:19 AM
good story a+
Posted by: Anonymous | November 19, 2010 11:03 PM
oh that is so creepy!
Posted by: KittyKat | November 22, 2010 08:25 PM
Kinda odd. Why didn`t the guy put the eye in his poket?
Posted by: Joe | November 25, 2010 02:42 AM
I dont like the ending but a great story! i wish i had an evil eye to freak ppl out!
Posted by: aimee | November 26, 2010 08:33 PM
coooool
Posted by: yo mAAMmAA | November 26, 2010 08:54 PM
creeeeeeeeeeeeepy!
Posted by: lilly pad | November 28, 2010 04:49 PM
kind of awesome and spooky
Posted by: chanel | November 30, 2010 12:52 PM
i think its kinda sad
Posted by: yellow ninja | December 2, 2010 01:26 PM
Whoa, cooooooooooooooooooooooool
Posted by: Spooky mistress | December 3, 2010 05:00 PM
Wow creepy but cool
Posted by: Anonymous | December 6, 2010 10:15 AM
cool
Posted by: fernando | December 6, 2010 11:25 AM
this is a good story. awesome!!! :)
Posted by: emily | December 7, 2010 03:15 PM
AWESOME!
Posted by: bmw boi | December 8, 2010 08:39 AM
This is really weird... + who would want an evil eye, wit posion in it.... Weird??????
Posted by: Anonymous | December 8, 2010 03:50 PM
EWWWWW!! who would put something that had been in someone else's eye socket, in their own mouth!!!!
Posted by: Anonymous | December 11, 2010 11:40 PM
scary ahhhhhh ill give u the evil i
Posted by: Anonymous | December 12, 2010 06:45 AM
legendery tale :)
Posted by: becca | December 18, 2010 07:01 AM
nice really nice
Posted by: coldy | December 19, 2010 03:49 AM
lol who would want a glass eye?! rofl i cant belive that he bite the eye!!!!! :D
Posted by: wats it to ya | December 19, 2010 04:32 PM
weirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd!
Posted by: Anonymous | December 21, 2010 10:36 AM
THAT IS SO FUNNY
Posted by: Anonymous | December 22, 2010 10:47 AM
cool
Posted by: tic toc | December 23, 2010 06:27 PM
Whoaa.!(:
Posted by: Brenda | December 25, 2010 08:34 PM
if he was a sailor, he shoulda just went for the traditional eye patch!
Posted by: ism0ktreez | December 26, 2010 02:49 PM
my BFF's cousin has a glass eye....
Posted by: Anonymous | December 27, 2010 07:40 PM
that is definitly not for kids
Posted by: molly | December 29, 2010 10:00 AM
they should have made a lazy eye lol
Posted by: lizzie bob | December 29, 2010 11:20 AM
gross & yuck
Posted by: Anonymous | December 30, 2010 12:50 PM
that was creepy when he opened his head uhhh
Posted by: maria | December 30, 2010 02:05 PM
One...exciting word!WOW!
Posted by: Anonymous | January 1, 2011 03:04 PM
Sick
Posted by: Slade | January 10, 2011 04:09 AM
totally cool!
Posted by: james henderson | January 25, 2011 10:57 PM
loved the story but who names their kid dingdong?well i guess it could b a cool name. haha
Posted by: Taylor | February 1, 2011 11:57 PM
sadly ironic
Posted by: j | February 2, 2011 04:28 PM
now thats wat i call a campfire story
Posted by: me | February 2, 2011 05:51 PM
awesome
Posted by: latasha | February 3, 2011 03:25 PM
Bell? BELL! Thats a GIRLS name!lol rofl!
Posted by: Kenzie | February 11, 2011 06:57 PM
hahahaha but why would you swaloow what came out of an eye????
Posted by: slartibartfast | February 17, 2011 04:05 PM
it was so creepy and bell is so stupid duh
Posted by: makala | February 20, 2011 05:05 PM
An EYE! AN EYE! ALL THESE CREEPY STORIES AND U COME UP WIYH A SILLY LITTLE EYE
???
Posted by: Anonymous | March 6, 2011 02:35 PM
how to make a evil eye...
Posted by: thomas | March 8, 2011 12:09 PM
that was to creepy for words.:)
Posted by: Anonymous | March 14, 2011 05:37 AM
WEIRD!! :)
Posted by: Ansley | March 17, 2011 11:15 AM
CREEPY but really, really, REALLY cool
Posted by: Clara | March 17, 2011 08:05 PM
gimme that evil glass eye
Posted by: zack | April 18, 2011 10:01 PM
cool but,CREEEPY!!!
Posted by: jazmin | April 24, 2011 05:45 PM
i thought that is was not really a good one i'v hered way beater
Posted by: musiclover9085 | June 7, 2011 09:53 AM
frozen while reading but coooolllll!!!!!!!!!!(:
Posted by: senia | June 18, 2011 10:35 PM
Dude CREEPY >:)
Posted by: Anonymous | June 23, 2011 11:50 AM
Jarge? Really? That is such a weird name!
Posted by: Anonymous | August 23, 2011 12:11 PM
Kinda boring don't you think?????
Posted by: Foop | August 23, 2011 08:39 PM
Well, I think it is Jarge's fault cuz who wants a @#$%in evil eye???????????????
Posted by: None ya | September 10, 2011 01:49 PM
my brother's step-uncle's daughter-in-law has a glaSS eye cuz her cousin-in-law's ex-boyfrend stucked a wrench in his eye
Posted by: cat valentine | October 9, 2011 01:53 PM
nice!
Posted by: Anonymous | October 24, 2011 10:42 PM
I LOVE ALL THESE STORYS!!! :D Keep On Writen Um! :)Your All Really Talented :)
Posted by: Emma | October 28, 2011 03:07 PM
omg that's so sad!!!!! all over a joke!!!!!
Posted by: Anonymous | October 31, 2011 11:18 AM
Kinda a sick twist on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"- killing someone because of their eye. Very creepy and eerie!
Posted by: Callie Effler | November 13, 2011 12:00 PM
that was totally CREEEPY!!!!great storymaking y'all
Posted by: jaimz | December 17, 2011 04:36 AM
how did they keep the poisin from leaking into his eye sicket? weird
Posted by: Anonymous | December 24, 2011 01:07 AM
Owwie.
Posted by: Omar Alherech | January 12, 2012 09:32 PM
It was real ANd I mean real creeepy!!!!!!!1,0000000000
But cool.
Posted by: Jesse | January 30, 2012 07:01 PM
Woah
Posted by: Derp | February 10, 2012 08:51 AM
LOL
Posted by: Anonymous | March 27, 2012 07:53 PM
It's his fault, didn't he no thr wuz poisen in thee i?
Posted by: Danni Love | April 3, 2012 06:25 PM
funny--ding dong "bit" into the eye! he deserves it (who agrees with me?)
Posted by: Sara | June 9, 2012 12:08 PM
O_O
Posted by: Conor McDaniel | July 11, 2012 02:26 PM
scary
Posted by: jasmin22 | August 24, 2012 07:42 PM
that storie scared the blood out of me yikes
Posted by: anonymous | September 20, 2012 10:37 AM
Weird... not so creepy though, I'm hard to scare. :D
Posted by: Freya Magnificent | September 22, 2012 05:12 AM
It is not a very scary story.
Posted by: Sherlock Holmes | October 1, 2012 05:48 PM