Kati doesn't know

As very little kids, Jared and Audrey took swimming lessons. They were held in the pool of the instructor's home — not that anyone remembers who she was. There were several other students taking lessons, too — not that Jared and Audrey remember anything about them. Except one.

A little girl named Kati took a liking to Audrey right away. She was bigger than her, so she treated Audrey like a little doll. She tried to feed her pool water, and nobody seemed to notice or help. At one point, Kati also threw up in the pool.

Jared had been grouped with the older kids, so he wasn’t there to intervene as Kati played with her living doll. Nothing crazy happened, though, and soon enough, the lessons were over.

The most lasting part of the experience was a song Jared and Audrey made up, one they remember perfectly to this day:

Kati doesn’t know
No
Because she made me [you] drink the water that she threw up in
And I [you] don’t want to get her spit because then I’ll [you’ll] turn into Kati

The song perpetuated their occult belief that by ingesting someone else’s spit (or other bodily excretions), one would turn into that person. (At the same time, in their minds, members of the same family were expected to share food and drink because they “had the same spit.”)

Nobody knows what became of Kati. She is probably still 3 years old and feeding little girls pool water to this day.  ❒

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