The night buyer came again smelling of damp earth in a cave, choosing his usual kola nuts as if nothing between them had transpired in the past. His coins felt dead in her hand the way they always did, and she took them without a change in her facial expression. This time, rather than dropping them into the woven basket she had used for years, she let them fall straight into the black bag resting against her hip. The coins struck the bottom with a dull sound, nothing like their usual ping. Something crossed his eyes for an instant, an annoyance he tried and failed to hide, and he left the stall faster than his business transaction could be completed.
She waited that night for the losses to start the way they always had, for the nuts to spoil, for some small disaster to knock on her door before morning. Nothing came. The coins kept their value the way the same way they did before market spoil for her. The nuts sold the next day at a better price than usual, and the grain moved off her mat faster than she could restock it. The bag had done what the entity promised it would do.
From that day the bag became part of every transaction she made. Each coin, each measure of goods, passed through it before it reached her hand. Honest trade, earned through ordinary sweat, moved through clean,ritual free, and stayed hers. Whatever arrived tainted, born out of dealings done in the darkness where jealousy and envy lived, the bag swallowed and sealed inside its tight black weave. She felt the difference on her body long before she understood it in her mind. Hauling goods to market and hauling that kind of protection at once was its own labour. One that most women never had to learn, but she managed it the way she did everything else, one season after another, until the disasters that had once circled her door stopped coming altogether. Her strength and dignity stayed hers, undivided.
She wore that bag against her hip until she laid it down for good, well past her hundredth year, worn smooth from decades of handling. It was still dark as a night with no moonlight, still cool against the skin, holding inside it the residue of more exchanges than anyone could count. What she had built was not simply a charm passed down through superstition. It was a defence shaped out of defiance of the most diabolical witchcraft used by locals who wanted her to BUY BAD MARKET. It was woven out of necessity by a woman who had decided, in plain terms, that no thief working through dark magical means would treat her life as bad currency.
Market women across that region still speak of her, and the ones who understand what it cost her rarely say it lightly.

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