More By Sezín Koehler: Revisiting ‘The Village’ in the Era of Active Shooter DrillsĪs in real life, it’s always easy to point a finger at a witch when supernatural occurrences surface. Sandwiched between these two tales of woodland woe is Book of Shadows, a story outside the foundational Blair Witch Project narrative that posits the first - and third - films are actually fictions, yet the characters are driven by the same terrible forces inspired by the so-called Blair Witch.

Seventeen years later in 2016’s Blair Witch, a new group in search of the first meet the same fate. The horror continues with Rustin Parr in the 1940s kidnapping and murdering children by twos, supposedly driven by Ellie Kedward’s ghost.īy the time we get to the events in 1999’s The Blair Witch Project, adults are pulled into the vortex of this supposed Blair Witch as three documentary filmmakers go missing.

The legend of the Blair Witch begins with Ellie Kedward in the 1800s, an accused witch found guilty of stealing and eating children, eventually captured and left tied to a tree in the woods to die. The world of the Blair Witch franchise is filled to the brim with all kinds of witchy ciphers, from enigmatic stick figures, strange rock formations, and human teeth wrapped in burlap along with mutilated bodies arranged in pentagrams.

Download blair witch witch