- While hunting cougar, Joe and Hoss find a young woman unconscious and bring her to the Ponderosa. The girl was abandoned in the wilderness by the wagon train she was traveling with because she is clairvoyant and sees bad events before they happen, and they thus think she is a witch. While recuperating, she predicts a future misfortune for Little Joe.—rbecker28
- Hoss and Little Joe are hunting a big cat that was preying on the cattle. At the same time, a group of people left a girl named Marie without food and water because they felt she was somehow causing bad things to happen. It's unclear at first if she is supposed to be clairvoyent or have second sight or whether she is somehow 'haunted' or a ghost, as Hoss later suggests. She predicts a lady will get sick and die and that it will lead to more dying. Meanwhile, when the boys kill the cat, they accidently shoot Marie. The doctor helps her and then she mysteriously tells Ben, after seeing a box that Joe's mother used to own that it belonged to a wife of Ben, but not Hoss's mother, that Joe's mother (also Marie) wasn't from the Bayou (as Ben had said his wife came from the same place as this Marie), but New Orleans. These things spook the boys some and later she tells Ben that she's 'voodoo' and always been a curse to whomever she's stayed with and she doesn't want that to happen to the Cartrights. Maria tried to warn her people about impending death of a woman but they blame her for the death as though she caused it. Finally they figure that she is indeed warning the people about an impending flashflood and they hurry to check their wagon trains. Meanwhile she is concerned for Joe as she foresees something happening to him as well. She thinks she's caused Joe's death, but he doesn't die. Ben tells Marie's mother that a doctor thinks that Marie has a gift to see things before they happen, but she doesn't cause anything to happen. She's been hearing that she causes bad things so long, she was believing it.
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