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| The Blair Witch |
In 1785, several children in the township of Blair, Maryland, accused an elderly woman named Elly Kedward of luring them into her home to draw blood from them. Edward was found guilty of witchcraft, banished from the village during a particularly harsh winter, and presumed dead.
Front: An early rendering of the Blair Witch.
I cannot be alone in thinking that this "early illustration" of the Blair Witch was designed to invoke the cover illustration of Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter, right?
Considering just how detailed the fictional legend of the Blair Witch was, and how the project itself was inspired by the likes of pseudo-science shows like In Search Of... and fabricated documentaries like The Legend of Boggy Creek, I do not think it being intentional is all that big of a stretch to make.
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