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An outline of the legend can be found [[http://lore.moondance.org/rosehall.html here]].
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* WhipItGood: She reportedly used WhipOfDominance: Annie, the eponymous ''witch'', was a sadistic slave-owner aristocrat who is widely portrayed as using a bullwhip on runaway slaves.
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* BlatantLies: Mostly about the way her husbands/lovers died -- after killing them, she After yet another husband or lover died, Annie would usually claim that they died from fever... and because fever was in fact fever. Since fevers really ''were'' a common cause of death in those days, nobody's suspicions among the upper class were ever raised.
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"The White Witch of Rose Hall" is a title that was given to Annie Palmer, a female slave-owner who reportedly resided at the Great House of Rose Hall, outside of the city of Montego Bay in St. James, Jamaica, during the 1820s and 1830s when slavery still flourished in the island (and in the wider Caribbean and the Americas).
According to the local lore, Annie Palmer was born in neighboring Haiti, and came to Jamaica where she married her first husband, John Palmer, in 1820. Legend says that [[BlackWidow she murdered him, and eventually two (or three) more husbands and many lovers]], and also that she was [[BlackMagicianGirl a practitioner of witchcraft]] which she used to subjugate the slaves under her command. Eventually she was [[LaserGuidedKarma killed by either one of her lovers or one of her slaves]] during a slave uprising in 1831, and her body is said to have been buried on the grounds of the plantation.
The Rose Hall Great House property has since been restored, with the mansion itself being a museum for tourists and local visitors to come and learn about the infamous legend. The site is famous for [[OurGhostsAreDifferent supposedly being haunted by Annie Palmer's spirit]]. Whether that fame will last is debatable, though, as in 2007 a paranormal researcher named Benjamin Radford declared, after much research, that the White Witch's ghost couldn't really exist as she was a fictional character.
''The White Witch of Rose Hall,'' a novel by H.G. de Lisser, is based on the legend and has as its protagonist a plantation bookkeeper who Annie takes as one of her many lovers.
An outline of the legend can be found [[http://lore.moondance.org/rosehall.html here]].
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!!Tropes attributable to the legend of the White Witch of Rose Hall and to Annie Palmer as a character:
* AssholeVictim: Following her death, she was considered this.
* TheBaroness: Apparently got off on the physical suffering of her slaves when they were made to be punished. H.G. de Lisser's novel describes this trait very graphically.
* BitchInSheepsClothing
* BlackMagicianGirl: A variation of the legend says she learned how to perform voodoo from her Hatian nanny.
* BlackWidow: According to the legend, Anne's body count included three to four husbands as well as many lovers.
* BlatantLies: Mostly about the way her husbands/lovers died -- after killing them, she would claim that they died from fever... and because fever was in fact a common cause of death in those days, nobody's suspicions among the upper class were ever raised.
* TheDogBitesBack: One of the theorized reasons she died.
* EvilFeelsGood: Annie evidently thought so.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen
* IControlMyMinionsThrough: Fear, torture, voodoo, sex, and murder.
* KickTheDog: As a slave-owner, she is said to have done this a LOT.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Her death came during a slave uprising, at the hand of either a lover or vengeance-seeker.
* {{Lust}}: With the number of husbands and lovers she had (the lovers coming from among both plantation bookkeepers and slaves), one can't help but suspect she suffered from this...
* MasterPoisoner
* OurGhostsAreDifferent
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Par for the course during the time period.
* PrideBeforeAFall
* RichBitch
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney
* SerialKiller: She certainly fit the mold.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Her preferred method of murder, especially where her husbands and lovers were concerned. In a few versions of the legend and in H.G. de Lisser's novel, some of her own slaves tried to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard pull this on her]] by poisoning one of her drinks, but she [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] the attempt when she realized her drink had been tampered with.
* UglyGuyHotWife: May well have been the case with her and her first husband, at least.
* TheVamp
* WhipItGood: She reportedly used a bullwhip on runaway slaves.
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According to the local lore, Annie Palmer was born in neighboring Haiti, and came to Jamaica where she married her first husband, John Palmer, in 1820. Legend says that [[BlackWidow she murdered him, and eventually two (or three) more husbands and many lovers]], and also that she was [[BlackMagicianGirl a practitioner of witchcraft]] which she used to subjugate the slaves under her command. Eventually she was [[LaserGuidedKarma killed by either one of her lovers or one of her slaves]] during a slave uprising in 1831, and her body is said to have been buried on the grounds of the plantation.
The Rose Hall Great House property has since been restored, with the mansion itself being a museum for tourists and local visitors to come and learn about the infamous legend. The site is famous for [[OurGhostsAreDifferent supposedly being haunted by Annie Palmer's spirit]]. Whether that fame will last is debatable, though, as in 2007 a paranormal researcher named Benjamin Radford declared, after much research, that the White Witch's ghost couldn't really exist as she was a fictional character.
''The White Witch of Rose Hall,'' a novel by H.G. de Lisser, is based on the legend and has as its protagonist a plantation bookkeeper who Annie takes as one of her many lovers.
An outline of the legend can be found [[http://lore.moondance.org/rosehall.html here]].
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!!Tropes attributable to the legend of the White Witch of Rose Hall and to Annie Palmer as a character:
* AssholeVictim: Following her death, she was considered this.
* TheBaroness: Apparently got off on the physical suffering of her slaves when they were made to be punished. H.G. de Lisser's novel describes this trait very graphically.
* BitchInSheepsClothing
* BlackMagicianGirl: A variation of the legend says she learned how to perform voodoo from her Hatian nanny.
* BlackWidow: According to the legend, Anne's body count included three to four husbands as well as many lovers.
* BlatantLies: Mostly about the way her husbands/lovers died -- after killing them, she would claim that they died from fever... and because fever was in fact a common cause of death in those days, nobody's suspicions among the upper class were ever raised.
* TheDogBitesBack: One of the theorized reasons she died.
* EvilFeelsGood: Annie evidently thought so.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen
* IControlMyMinionsThrough: Fear, torture, voodoo, sex, and murder.
* KickTheDog: As a slave-owner, she is said to have done this a LOT.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Her death came during a slave uprising, at the hand of either a lover or vengeance-seeker.
* {{Lust}}: With the number of husbands and lovers she had (the lovers coming from among both plantation bookkeepers and slaves), one can't help but suspect she suffered from this...
* MasterPoisoner
* OurGhostsAreDifferent
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Par for the course during the time period.
* PrideBeforeAFall
* RichBitch
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney
* SerialKiller: She certainly fit the mold.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Her preferred method of murder, especially where her husbands and lovers were concerned. In a few versions of the legend and in H.G. de Lisser's novel, some of her own slaves tried to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard pull this on her]] by poisoning one of her drinks, but she [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] the attempt when she realized her drink had been tampered with.
* UglyGuyHotWife: May well have been the case with her and her first husband, at least.
* TheVamp
* WhipItGood: She reportedly used a bullwhip on runaway slaves.
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