The blair witch cult book pdf

The story continued through a series of macabre murders and disappearances. The filmmakers invented historians, cops and townspeople to interview. To give the "mockumentary" some texture, they wanted to create a half hour of footage from the Blair woods. In June , supporting themselves by making videos for Planet Hollywood, they placed an ad in Back Stage and began yearlong auditions for three actors to improvise and film all the action themselves.

Heather Donahue, 24, recalls her audition. I'm twice as angry as when I was put in here'. They were told to expect the worst. For six days and nights, the actors camped in the woods, getting dirtier and hungrier as they filmed each other on 16mm-film camera and Hi-8 camcorder. In lieu of a script, each morning they received private messages in film canisters, and were told not to share them with the others.

Production designer Ben Rock devised a creepy stick figure, obliquely menacing, and hung it in trees. Everything else they left to the cast's--and ultimately, the audience's--imagination. Though the actors would pass an occasional jogger, and sometimes cross a road, they began to feel cut off from the safety of the civilized world.

Edges started to fray. Myrick and Sanchez then began editing the 20 hours of footage into something more manageable. As they blended in some faked interview scenes, they found the canned stuff felt too cheesy. Besides, the woods footage was beginning to cohere into a story. They trimmed it to two-and-a-half hours and screened it for an audience in central Florida. There were some problems. The two chopped Heather's shrill scenes, then chopped some more. In need of money and distribution, they launched a rudimentary but clever Web site in June Though most movies had sites by then, offering cast photos and the like, Myrick, Sanchez and Hale stuffed theirs with lore about the Blair Witch, including fake newspaper clippings and Heather's "diary.

On limited resources, they twisted the usual Hollywood marketing scheme: instead of broadcasting to the passive masses, they targeted the small, rabid and influential clique that might seek out a witchy Internet site.

The compatibly cultish Independent Film Channel's "Split Screen" program aired a short documentary spot about the fake documentary feature. Local folklore says that around Colonel Nathaniel Blair led an expedition to cross the forest in order to find a suitable place to build a fort.

Nathaniel is said to have sought help from a tribe in the area - but in response they sabotaged his expedition. In spite of this, Blair and his men built the fort which they baptized with the colonel's surname.

Over the years, the site would grow to become the city of Blair in Although the Native Americans refused to enter the forest, legends say that Colonel Blair and his men built a fort in the forest of the Black Hills. Different stories tell that years later, around , a Blair resident named Elly Kedward an Irish immigrant was accused of practicing witchcraft by several children.

The children said that she had dragged them from their homes with the intention of drinking their blood. Terror was unleashed on the entire population and Elly Kedward was convicted of witchcraft and exiled from Blair forever. Tied to a wagon, the woman was abandoned in the woods during the harsh winter. As the days passed, the people of Blair began to breathe easy believing that Elly had died from the cold or had been eaten by the wild beasts that lived in the mountains.

However, 3 of the children, accompanied by their dogs, returned to the forest to see if she had actually died and, to their surprise, they encountered the alleged witch still alive. The boys ordered their dogs to finish the job by biting her, while they beat her with tree branches. After that, they decided to release her from the cart and hang her from a tree until Elly Kedward died. From then on, the stories say that numerous strange happenings began to take place in the forests of Black Hills.

Elly Kedward was accused by several children of having dragged them out of their houses with the intention of drinking their blood. The myth continues that a year later, in November , half of the village's children, including the three who killed Elly, had disappeared. None of them were found — neither alive nor dead.

Yet, a book is said to have appeared in called "The Blair Witch Cult". This book, an unusual work of fiction of very poor quality, tells the story of a village cursed by a witch. The village is Blair and the witch, Elly Kedward.

However, in this story the witch is hunted and then burned for her crimes. More than 40 years had passed before someone returned to reside in Blair. By , a man named Henry Burkitt bought the abandoned town from the government. Little by little he rebuilt the buildings, which were in ruins, and in he renamed the city after himself. He called it Burkittsville - a town that does exist and is visited by many tourists thanks to the legends of a witch.

Modern Burkittsville. The hand allegedly pulled year-old Eileen Treacle underwater. The search for the young girl took weeks, but her body was never found. He rose, and it vanished : tho' he found the doors all fast. He went. The Child in the Cradle gave a great Screech, and the Woman disappeared. Blood was. The Day after, upon inspection, Hair of Horse lay in. She was indicted for Bewitching of several Children in the Neighbourhood, the Indictment being drawn up, according to the Form in She confessed, that the Devil had Relations with Kedward and Blair Witch Explore.