When I was a child I hated the dark.  To this day I don’t understand why and I don’t remember when that fear left me.

I shared a bedroom with my sister and when the lights went out I would think there were witches outside the door waiting to pounce on me. Yes I said witches complete with black gowns and weird hats and big ugly noses. In fact now that I think about it the witches looked just like the witch in the Wizard of Oz movie with Judy Garland. And yes I did see that movie as a child and that witch with her screechy voice scared the stuffing out of me.

Now I know that is sounds comical but these witches came every night to haunt me for years and I haven’t a clue why, maybe it was the movie that stayed with me.

It always took a long time for me to get to sleep because I was waiting for the witches to leave.  Eventually I did fall off usually scared that I would be taken to a witch’s lair.