Published in 1809, this original copy of "The Blair Witch Cult" is badly damaged, with little of the writing still legible. Below are excerpts from parts of the book that can still be read.
It was testifi'd, That at the Examination of the Prisoner Kedward before the Magistrates, the Bewitched was extreamly tortured.
. . .was the Shape of the Prisoner, which was whipped with Iron Rods, to compel her thereunto.
. . .about Sun Rise, he was in his Chamber assaulted by the Shape of this Prisoner : which look'd on him, grinn'd at him, and very much hurt him with a Blow on the side. . .and. . .Shape walked in the Room where he was, and a Book strangely flew out of his Hand, into the. . . six or eight Foot from him.
. . .he wak'd on a Night, and saw plainly a Woman between the Cradle and the Bed-side, which look'd upon him. He rose, and it vanished : tho' he found the doors all fast. . .he saw the same Woman, in the same Garb again ; and said, In God's Name, what do you come for? He went. . .The Child in the Cradle gave a great Screech, and the Woman disappeared. Blood was. . .
. . .with the doors shut about him, he saw a black Thing jump in at the window, and come and stand before him. The Body was like that of a Monkey, the Feet like a Horse, but the face much like a Man. The Day after, upon inspection, Hair of Horse lay in. . .
. . .did in the holes of the said old Wall, find several Poppets, made up of Sticks and Rags and Hogs-bristles, with headless. . .
The blair witch is true
She died for the murder of seven children
often rambling and incoherent, is divided into thirteen chapters, each of which is not numbered but rather set off by a series of mysterious symbols.
Professor Peter Walling, a linguistics expert from Hampshire College, has tentatively identified these symbols as Transitus Fluvii... the so-called "Witches Cipher" used in the middle ages.
