they said were not taken too seriously. The legend of the Blair Witch as they found it goes about as follows. In February of 1785 several children accused Elly Kedward of luring them into her home to draw blood from them. Elly is found guilty of witchcraft and, banished from the village of Blair during a particularly harsh winter, and presumed dead. By midwinter of 1786 all of Kedwards accusers, along with half of the towns children disappear. Fearing a curse, the townspeople flee Blair and vow never to Utter Elly Kedwards name again. Then in 1809 The Blair Witch Cult is published. This book which is commonly considered fiction, (pg. 101) tells the tale of an entire town cursed by an outcast witch. In 1824 the town of Burkittsville is founded on the Blair site. In August of 1825 Eleven witnesses testify to seeing a pale womans hand reach up and pull a ten-year-old girl into Tappy East Creek. Her body is never recovered. For thirteen days after the drowning, the creek is clogged with oily bundles of sticks. Then in March of 1886 eight-year-old Robin Weaver is reported missing and search parties are sent out. Although Weaver returns, one of the search parties does not. Their bodies are found weeks later at coffin rock, tied together at the arms and legs and completely disemboweled. Then starting in November of 1940 through May of 1941 seven children disappear from the area surrounding Burkittsville. In May of 1941 an old hermit named Rustin Parr walks into a local market and tells the people there that he is finally finished. (pg. 198) After the police hike for four hours to his secluded house in the woods they find the bodies of the seven missing children in the cellar. Each child has been ritualistically murdered and disemboweled. Parr admitted to the killings, telling authorities a voice in his head, the voice of an old woman, commanded him to do it. He is quickly convicted and hanged. The next mention of the Blair ...
