Horror stories

Soon after the war, a large family of refugees arrived in one village somewhere in the Caucasus. Children were about ten small-smaller, 3 women and a man - the head of the family, who returned from the front.
There was an empty house in the village that suffered from a fire. Arrived there settled - there was nothing to choose from. Residents of the village seemed to want to say something, but they did not say anything.
They lived peacefully for three weeks. And then a misfortune happened ...
In the morning they found a dead 4-year-old girl. The head of the family immediately realized that she was strangled. But by whom ?? Death was written off for hunger and disease.
No one noticed that this day was a new moon ...
A month later another child died. Then one more and more.
And then the death of the head of the family's sister followed. And she, too, was strangled by an unknown force.
Desperate man, noticing that his fellow villagers are talking about something behind him, decided to talk with an elderly family living in the neighborhood. They opened a terrible secret to him.
Two weeks before the arrival of the family, a fire broke out in the house. And there lived in him a woman who was called a witch for eyes and eyes. Yes, she, in principle, and did not reject, with people did not communicate and lived unknown. Her remains were never found in the house ...
Neighbor too was well versed in znakharian affairs, but she did not wish anyone evil. She gave the man a couple of practical tips.
At first, she advised him to go to the old place of residence and bring home a guard, guarding their former hearth. He had to help cope with the unclean spirits.
With great difficulties, but the soldier, who had never believed in God or the devil, did so, reaching the ruins of the old house and performing a simple ritual. He brought home a small bag containing an unknown force.
On the new moon, the whole family was asked to protect the good spirit of this house.
Night came. The owner of the house did everything not to fall asleep. Fear crept closer and closer. At midnight there was a strange noise. Finally, he saw everything ...
The floorboards moved apart from the oven and a semi-decaying corpse appeared, remotely resembling a woman. So that's where the deceased mistress of this house was! She moved toward the serenely sleeping children on the floor, stretching out her bony hands and disgustingly hissing.
There was a whistle, and a silver cloud flew out of the knapsack brought by the man and put on the stove, which rushed to the demon and surrounded him with a white mist. The monster stopped, unable to move on. The owner of the house watched in horror and amazement the confrontation of the two forces, not knowing what else to do. Suddenly he just fell into a deep sleep.
He woke up in the morning and saw with joy that all the children were alive. Remembering what he saw at night, he examined the floorboards and found a climb to the stove. There he found the charred corpse of a witch.
A neighbor, a sorceress, advised her to bury her at the crossroads so that the evil spirit could not find the road back, but was lost among the paths and roads. So they did the whole village.
A house, apparently, caught on in this house. The rest of the time did not happen in the family of great troubles, they lived quietly and peacefully, recovering after the war. And from the ghost the good spirit of them reliably protected.