

He took the children back to his secluded house and brutally disembowelled them, just as Elly Kedward had done with the search party. As Rustin was already being driven mad by the spirit of Elly stumbling about the woods at night and chanting foreign phrases in his sleep, this was an easy task for him to accomplish. He accomplished this by promising candy to the children. In late 1940, a hermit named Rustin Parr began abducting children from Burkittsville, having been previously ordered by the evil spirit of Elly Kedward to walk into Burkittsville and take the first group of children he found. Infuriated, Elly Kedward took the corpses of the search party, and dragged them off into the forest, all in a matter of two hours, but not before another search party had witnessed the corpses and knew of an evil force in the Burkittsville woods. However, she discovered the empty house and realized that Robin had fled. The search party were soon slaughtered by Elly Kedward, who disembowelled them and left their corpses on Coffin Rock, then returned to the house, supposedly to kill Robin. The Police arrived in the woods, and began looking for Robin, but when they arrived at Coffin Rock, the evil spirit of Elly Kedward, the Blair Witch, assailed the search party, having just left Robin in the house in order to seek out the search party. The Burkittsville Police sent a search party up into the woods to rescue her at the same time Robin was led into the cellar by the old woman she had met in the woods. Her grandmother had become anxious about her and she had alerted the authorities. While Robin had been in the basement, however, she had been missed. As she pictured herself all alone in the woods, which were becoming swamped in the darkness of the evening, Robin stood up and found a window in the basement, through which she squeezed herself and then ran through the darkening woods, and out of the woods completely, racing back to Burkittsville, to which she returned safely, although from then after she avoided the woods, claiming to feel an evil presence about the Burkittsville forest. Robin grew more and more frightened: she had been feeling a growing feeling of evil ever since she stepped into the basement. Hours passed, as Robin sat in the basement, which slowly grew darker as afternoon faded into evening. The old woman said she would depart, and left promising to return. Robin followed the woman and entered the house, and followed the woman down to a basement down in the bowels of the house. In 1886, eight-year-old Robin Weaver was in the forest around Blair (which had been rediscovered and renamed Burkittsville) when she got lost and met an old woman, whose feet, according to Robin, "did not touch the ground." She was initially straight, but then she came to the old woman, who acted in a seemingly generous manner, and she followed the old woman deep into the wood to an old, abandoned house, which she entered. The incident was the first of several to be blamed on the Blair Witch. A man drank the water sometime later, and it killed him, while several animals also got sick and died. Afterwards, the creek mysteriously became clogged with oily bundles of sticks, rendering the water useless for thirteen days. The creek was searched, but Eileen's body was never recovered. Eleven eye-witnesses claim to have seen a ghostly white hand reach up out of the water and pulled her in. During the event, ten-year-old Eileen Treacle wandered off towards Tappy East Creek and drowned in the shallow water. In 1825, a year after the town was rediscovered and founded as Burkittsville, the villagers held the first annual Wheat Harvest Picnic. It contained the first recorded use of the term "Blair Witch".
#Blair witch witch trial#
Sam Adams book told of the trial of Elly Kedward, her execution and supposed “rebirth,” as well as the curse on the entire town. Fearing a curse, the townspeople immediately fled Blair, vowing never to utter the name "Elly Kedward" again. The next year, all of her accusers and half the town's children vanished without a trace. She was hung on a tree with stones tied to each of her limbs, stretching her body down with gravity.

In the winter of 1785, Elly Kedward was banished from the town of Blair after several local children accused her of performing witchcraft.
