Charlie Nduka taught his closest friends - Charlie Hope andCharlie Ricky how to instigate fights. They were havings welled times watching other fight and cry and perhaps wound themselves. When they became notorious in the quaint village of Umueze, the children avoided their company. Their lives became drabbed and dour. They started arranging cocks, rams and bucks fights. They were enjoying it but it also brought back the children to them.On a no ordinary day Charlie Nduka lost the family buck in afight it won but lost its life to a doe it fought and won to sire.The priced family doe loathed the stud to death.It was the day the leaders of the village choose to cash in onthe skittishness and ardour the people ascribes to the deities, to check illicit abuse of cannabis, a fast-growing fad among the youths. They thought the weed was the reason for thegrowing crime rate in the community. They did not know the deities are now effete. But puckish Chief Udemba, the Chief Priest of Ogwugwu deity, propped and bribed by his son's friends proclaimed a curse that brought the village to herknees until they revoked the earlier curse on weed smoker.