Girls, Is This When America Started Persecuting The Irish???????????

                            Elly Kedward was born in 1729, and died in February of 1785.  She came from Ireland, and perhaps she made a mistake doing so.  To the town of Blair, Maryland, where she ended up, she was known as the Blair Witch, from which the 1999 documentary-like horror film, "The Blair Witch Project," took its inspiration.

                                And Elly's story is the most fascinating part of the whole thing. She was accused of being a witch by locals, who had discovered her prickling blood from children's fingers.  Not only that, they called her a "dirty prostitute," and upbraided her for Catholicism, because the good people of Blair were Protestant.

                                 During the roughest winter in memory, Elly was tied to a sledge, wheeled out into the woods by the locals, and left there to die by the freezing cold.  Elly was tougher than they thought.  She was physically tortured, tied to a tree, had dogs set on her, and did not die until she was hanged from the tree.

                                   The following Winter, Elly's spirit returned, carrying off half the children of the town.  Then, the next year, children went missing in the woods, where Elly had died.  Blair became a ghost town, as the locals fled.

                                     I just LOVE Elly, darlings!

                                      You have got to see this "conceptual trailer" made by a group of talented people, outlining a film for the story I have just related.  From the footage here, it has the potential for being as good, if not better, than "The Blair Witch Project!"

                                        But, see for yourselves, girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!