![]() In written accounts of the haunting, the entity is referred to using many names, such as goblin, demon, and devil. So, the Bell Witch was perceived as a supernatural entity, who incidentally often had the name “Kate” attributed to it, for reasons that are explained in this documentary. ![]() Instead, the legends of the Bell Witch refer to an extreme haunting experienced by members of the community of Adams, Tennessee, in the early 19th century and most particularly by the family of John Bell. Now, Seth Breedlove and Adrienne Breedlove have added to this legend’s cinematic legacy The Mark of the Bell Witch, a documentary that strives to contextualize the prominent legend in folklorist interpretation and historical fact.Ĭontrary to what you might expect, the Bell Witch was never an actual woman accused of witchcraft, at all. Since The Blair Witch Project was released in 1999, there have been five supernatural and/or found-footage horror films released based on legends of the Blair Witch in Maryland and the Bell Witch in Tennessee. The Blair Witch is not as terrifying to viewers now as it was upon its release, in part because promotional marketing claimed that the film’s actors were missing and that the film was actually recovered from their attempts to document the Blair Witch legend in the woods of Maryland. ![]() Almost everyone is familiar with the movie The Blair Witch Project which revolutionized the found footage subgenre. ![]()
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