have you heard of the blair witch?
”Anybody worth their salt around here knows this area has been haunted by that old woman for years.” – Bob Griffin VanDerWerff (2014) writes: “What’s hard to remember now about Blair Witch … is just how much of the story about the film was all of the material surrounding the film.” VanDerWerff goes on to suggest, “The idea of Blair Witch , as it turned out, was ultimately far scarier than anything the film could sell.” That might be better phrased, given VanDerWerff’s apparent point, as, the idea of the Blair Witch —the idea of the Blair Witch was bigger than the film itself, bigger than the Dossier I referenced yesterday , bigger than the promotional website. The question then: who was the Blair Witch and what goes into her legend? Let’s piece together the details: The basics (from page 101 of the Dossier ): February 1785 Several Children accuse Elly Kedward of luring them into her home to draw blood from them [“with some pinpricks” according to a video in the 1970s partial...