The Blair Witch Cult
The Blair Witch Cult, is a book with a mysterious history. It's origins are mostly unknown, and is considered to have been anonymously written. The year of its publication is up for debate, according to information given when the book was on display from the Maryland Historical Society (Right), it was written in 1785. Other information suggests the book was published January of 1809, could it be possible both are right? Did twenty-four years pass from the time the book was completed, and when it was first published? Who wrote the book? Where was it stored away during that time? The only known copy of the book is missing, where is it now?
Known Passages
The awful hag wrenched the boy’s head from his writhing body, and defiled the church with his warm blood. It was then that I noticed that a dog’s teat had sprouted from her leg. She controlled the animals in the forest, even the trees seeming to do her bidding.
When she walked, she didn’t touch the ground. And her followers made a horrible mulch of the countless dead littering the streets
It was testified, that at the Examination of the Prisoner Kedward before the magistrate, the bewitched was extremely tortured.
...was the Shape of the Prisoner, which was whipped with Iron Rods, to compel her thereunto.
...about Sun Rise, he was in his chamber assaulted by the Shape of this Prisoner. Which looked on him, grinned at him, and very much hurt him with a blow on the side … and … Shape walked in the room where he was, and a book strangely flew out of his Hand, into the… six or eight foot from him.
...he waked on a night, and saw plainly a woman between the cradle and the bedside, which looked upon him. He rose, and it vanished. Though he found the doors all fast … he saw the same woman, in the same garb again; and said, in god’s name, what do you come for? He went … The child in the cradle gave a great screech, and the woman disappeared. Blood was…
...with the doors shut about him, he saw a black thing jump in at the window, and come and stand before him. The body was like that of a monkey, the feet like a horse, but the face much like a man. The day after, upon inspection, hair of horse lay in…
...did in the holes of the said old wall, find several poppets, made up of sticks and rags and hogs-bristles, with headless…
She was indicted for bewitching of several children in the neighborhood, the indictment being drawn up, according to the form in … pleading, not guilty…
That the Shape of the Prisoner did oftentimes very grievously pinch them, cloak them, bite them, prick them with pins and bleed them.
That it was Elly Kedward, or her Shape, that grievously tormented them, by biting, pricking, pinching and choking them.
This poor child is bewitched; and you have a neighbor living not far off, who is a witch
...but besides this, a Jury of women found a preternatural teat upon her body. But upon second search,, within 3 or 4 hours, there was no such thing to be seen.
...that she had seen the prisoner at … and that it was this Kedward, who persuaded her to be a Witch. She confessed, that the devil had relations with Kedward and…