Salem Witch Trial hysteria and the courageous stance of Giles Corey.
The Zugarramurdi Witch Trials: Welcome to the Spanish Salem.Tied to a wagon, the woman was abandoned in the woods during the harsh winter. Terror was unleashed on the entire population and Elly Kedward was convicted of witchcraft and exiled from Blair forever. The children said that she had dragged them from their homes with the intention of drinking their blood. (Ken Mayer/ CC BY-SA 2.0 )ĭifferent stories tell that 150 years later, around 1785, a Blair resident named Elly Kedward (an Irish immigrant) was accused of practicing witchcraft by several children. Over the years, the site would grow to become the city of Blair in 1634.Īlthough the Native Americans refused to enter the forest, legends say that Colonel Blair and his men built a fort in the forest of the Black Hills. In spite of this, Blair and his men built the fort which they baptized with the colonel's surname. Nathaniel is said to have sought help from a tribe in the area - but in response they sabotaged his expedition. Local folklore says that around 1630 Colonel Nathaniel Blair led an expedition to cross the forest in order to find a suitable place to build a fort. It seems that the origins of the legend begin in Maryland in the forests of the Black Hills - a place in which, according to local traditions, Native American tribes dared not enter. What did Elly do for her to be called a witch? What terrible events are said to have occurred in the last 300 years in certain forests of Maryland, USA? What is the origin of the curse connected to an infamous witch? The Rise of the Blair Witch However, Sánchez and Myrick based their production on a legend about a woman who many people claim was real: Elly Kedward. The movie was directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez and it was so successful that it spread across the world. When most people hear about the Blair witch, images come to mind of a horror film which was released in 1999 with a very low production budget.
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