Bagging a Witch in Ohio Some early 19th-century witchery in Ohio: possessed girls conjure witches into a bag and cut them to pieces. And a witch gets weighed.
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Chris Woodyard
on
March 13, 2014
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Panics , Social History , Strange Lives , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged 19th century witches , Bagging a Witch in Ohio , Bethel , Clermont County , Ohio witches , witch panics , witch tests , witch trials , witch-weighing
Profiles of four Virginia witches in the late nineteenth century.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 8, 2014
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , News , Occultism/Magic , Prophecies , religion , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Lives , Witches
and tagged 19th century witches , Spontaneous Human Combustion , VIrginia witchcraft , Virginia witches , witch belief , witchcraft
