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Re: The Bell Witch

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On 5/1/23 23:44, cbusylol wrote:
> On Thursday, April 14, 1994 at 10:12:26 PM UTC-6, Matt Hucke wrote:
>> Jim Holton <Jim_Holton.CELL#u#BIO...@cellbio.duke.edu> writes:
>>> When I was in elementary school we had our own series of legends on the
>>> Bell Witch. We strongly believed that she lived (haunted?) in the field
>>> behind the school, which contained some old shacks. It was said that if
>>> you looked into a mirror and said, "I hate the Bell Witch" three times,
>>> she would appear.
>> I've heard several variations of this. In my area, it was "Mary
>> Magdalene, come out, come out", said five times to a mirror in a completely
>> darkened room. She would then appear, covered in blood, and strangle you.
>> The movie "Candyman", very loosely based on Clive Barker's "The
>> Forbidden", had a similar legend. If "Candyman" was said five times into
>> a mirror, the ghost would burst through and cut the victim open with the
>> hook that served as his hand. The Candyman was a ghost of a black man
>> from the previous century, who had been commissioned to paint a picture of
>> a white girl. They fell in love, and when the girl's father learned of
>> this, he led a mob which cut off his hand and then burned him to death.
>> [I especially enjoyed the movie because, although the story was originally
>> in England, the film was set in Chicago, at the University of Illinois
>> and nearby housing projects. During my first week at UIC, the student union
>> had a showing of Candyman, undoubtedly selected because it featured the
>> university... the chills a movie like this can send down your spine are
>> amplified tenfold when you are viewing it in the location it was set,
>> and the familiar landmarks take on a more sinister feel...]
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> The new Candyman by Jordan Peele was well done. Really goes into the folklore that was (what I assume) originally just a plot to a movie that was loosely based on Bloody Mary. It also sort of adds its own kicks to it without sullying the original story, almost adding to the folklore


I have two books on this subject: "The Infamous Bell Witch of Tennessee" 
ISBN 1-5707-008-8  and "the Bell Witch" ISBN 0-312-26292-2.
There is a theory that the origins of the Bell Witch relate to
a backwoods family that had some incest issues going on and the victims
used the "Bell Witch" persona to try to frighten off their predators.


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