7/28/2023 0 Comments Loon lake cemetery mary jane![]() ![]() Even if these stories are, for the most part, pure fabrication easily disproven, there is a collective desire to want to believe them.Ī surprising number of so-called witches have in common one specific element: their grave looks a particular way. Attributing the fire to her curse merely solidified the legend, making it easy to believe that the witch continued to exert supernatural agency after her bodily death. This woman was dubbed a witch merely for her age and supposed but unsubstantiated supernatural powers, alleged mainly in hindsight and rumor. An outcast old woman cursed the city to burn in a fire on after she died her prediction came true and a chain around her grave was found broken (the interpretation being that she escaped and got her revenge). In rare cases, the witch’s “curse” can at least somewhat be corroborated with local history, as with the witch of Yazoo City, an unpopular old crone whose deathbed vows surprisingly came true when the entire city burned to the ground a few years after her demise. Fear of the crone is fundamentally at work here, and single, outspoken, and old women are always suspect. ![]() Every town is haunted by the idea of the old woman in a ramshackle house even if one doesn’t exist there. Aesthetics and appearance have a lot to do with it, whether it’s the appearance of the “witch’s” grave, or the appearance and demeanor of the woman herself. They probably were never witches at all, and have been so dubbed due to some confluence of coincidence, circumstance, and urban legend-or, as it happens, rural legend, for most of these tales take place in small towns and rural or semirural locations. The living witch can, however, be put to death the real terror of the witch as ghost is that nothing can stop her.Īnother thing these ghostly witches have in common? Rumor. The witch as ghost, then, is defined by pretty much the same qualities as the witch as a living woman: she is powerful, fearsome, and not to be trifled with. She is so strong, she bursts through the boundaries of death and comes back to wreak vengeance on the living. Second, she is often associated with a curse, and her powers transcend the grave. There are a few defining traits when it comes to the ghost-witch: first, she is generally the ghost of a woman who was accused or executed for witchcraft, whether she practiced it or not (usually not), coming back to seek revenge or draw attention to the injustice visited upon her. Yet where there are points of contact, the witch emerges as a curious but recognizable type of ghost. Though some lump the witch into the category “all things supernatural,” her status is somewhat distinct due in part to her complex and specific history, symbolism, and relationship to defined spiritual and cultural traditions. The witch has an interesting relationship to ghostlore she is both part of it and separate from it. They have become totemic figures in television, movies, books, and pop culture, and their appeal shows no signs of waning: as of this writing, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem is devoting a full-scale exhibit to the power and imagery of the witch. In American history, they occupy a unique place where folklore blurs the lines of reality we remember the “witches” of Salem, Massachusetts, who were not actually witches. They are eternal, mythical subjects, a source of endless fascination. Like all powerful women, they have been maligned, persecuted, hated, desired, feared. Her headstone?s epitaph was the inspiration to the bridge section lyric of the song.Witches are powerful women. ![]() Check out a photo of David Ellefson with Mary Jane’s headstone below. The Jackson County Historical Society relocated the headstone from her grave to its museum located in the nearby town of Lakefield, MN. There were even stories of deadly car crashes involving people who got drunk and caused mayhem on her grave, thinking it was all harmless fun. The mystery surrounding her grew to such legendary proportions over the years that it was rumored anyone who dared violate her grave in any was was doomed to a certain and immediate death. Legend has it that Mary Jane Twilliger was a young witch buried alive by her father in the nearby Loon Lake, MN cemetery. ![]() I’ve heard it’s about a girl practicing black magic, but I’ve also heard it pertains to marijuana. Hey ScorpioN, Megadeth has been my favorite band for a long time and I’ve always loved the song “Mary Jane” off the album “So Far, So Good…So What!” And I’m curious as to what the meaning of the song is. ![]()
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