They vow never to speak Elly Kedward’s name again. Fearing a curse the entire township flees as soon as the weather breaks. 1786 – All of Elly Kedward’s accusers, and half of the town of Blair’s children, vanish. 1785 – Several children in the township of Blair accuse Elly Kedward of luring them into her home to draw their blood in order to create “magic potions.” Kedward is found guilty of witchcraft and banished from the village during a particularly harsh winter. (CBW)ġ769 – The registry of the seafaring vessel, The Reliant, shows that a woman named Elle Kedward sailed from Ireland to Baltimore in the summer of this year. (BWD)ġ734 – The township of Blair, Maryland is founded. Along the way he encounters unexpected difficulties, and Pheypo is forced to return to Baltimore having failed to accomplish his mission. This is the history of the Blair Witch, as told by those that lived it, those that studied it, and those whose lives it has claimed.Īlso See: 20 Years on, Nothing Compares to TBWP Part I: Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch to Live Timeline (1632 – 1939)ġ632 – Martin Pheypo leads a party of twelve men into the Appalachians, planning to establish a trading post and a garrison. One not etched in stone, but written in blood. You can read the lore, you can study the mythology, and you can learn the history… but none of that guarantees understanding, because the real story often hides between the lines of text, shrinking away from the light.ĭoes something evil lurk in the Black Hills forest in and near Burkittsville, Maryland? Those of the skeptical persuasion often scoff at such a notion.īut history? History tells a different story. The truth of Elly Kedward and the Black Hills will always be somewhat illusory. But, as Heather’s own family knows all too well, that’s not always true, because sometimes the legend of the Blair Witch doesn’t leave anything behind to bury. “Etched in stone,” she said, referring to the grave markers that surrounded her in that Burkittsville cemetery. Heather Donahue once said the evidence of the Blair Witch legend could be seen all around us. With the release of the Blair Witch game for the Xbox One and PC, the video game industry joins Hollywood in continuing to exploit centuries of Maryland folklore and tragedy, seeming to forget that behind the legends and the whispers the history of the Blair Witch is one which lays claim to a large number of real life victims, all of which deserve to be remembered and have their voices heard.
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