Capturing Bunnywoman

Okay, Sierra, we have this article, and I am going to let you read it.

I'm very excited.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity.

So this article comes from the York Democratic Press, published Friday, October 23rd, 1891.

And it's titled, Case of Witchcraft.

That is exercising the powwow doctors of Jefferson.

The supposed witch, a lady who at picnic several weeks ago bewitched a young man by touching him with a carriage whip bent in the shape of a ring.

The good people of the town of Jefferson, a quiet and slumbering little borough which lies nestling amid the famous old Cadoras Hills, ten miles east of this place, are very much exercised just now over an alleged case of witchcraftery that occurred near there.

One day last week, a young man residing near Jefferson died and was buried, and it is the belief of many that his death was the direct result of witchcraft.

the particulars of the case according to the common rumor are substantially as follows several weeks ago the young man attended a picnic in the neighborhood and while there a young woman who is supposed to be possessed of supernatural powers desired him to take her driving in his buggy the young man refused whereupon she seized the whip from him bent it into the shape of a ring no doubt a magical one and gave him a few taps immediately afterwards he began ailing and medical aid was unavailing to save him the physicians being unable to agree as the cause of his death his friends had several so-called witch or pow-wow doctors in attendance upon him but who it appears could do nothing to alleviate his sufferings and prevent a fatal termination

I tried to find this fella.

I tried to find the young woman who bewitched him.

And of course, there's no information, so it's kind of hard to find.

But I did look for deaths of young men around that time without knowing which cemetery he could have been buried in.

It's a little bit hard to find.

I don't have the specifics of it.

I do find that very, very interesting, though, especially bending the riding whip in a circle and tapping him with it.

Even the article notes it being a magic circle.

So that's very, very interesting.

I do think it's interesting.

I also think it's neat that this was on October 23rd, which, although it's over a century ago, we are very close to this period of time in reviewing the story.

That was a pure coincidence.

I just was like, let me bring up the story tonight that Chad found and it happened to be from that date.

I would like to say, though, if a young man is being hit with a whip repeatedly, it is possible that he would have some sort of ailment afterwards.

Well, it's that she tapped him, right? Didn't say she was wailing on him, did it?