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[[WMG: The Blair Witch project is just one long, epic, prank.
Why? Because the gang wanted to pull of the biggest prank in modern day history. In reality they're all laughing their asses off having fooled so many people.

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[[WMG: The Blair Witch project is just one long, epic, prank.
prank.]]
Why? Because the gang wanted to pull of the biggest prank in modern day history. In reality they're all laughing their asses off having fooled so many people. The Blair Witch is in on the prank too.
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In the mockumentary ''The Curse of the Blair Witch'', which was part of the movie's ViralMarketing, the legend of the Blair witch is discussed at length. One commentator mentions that Elly Kedward (who apparently came to Maryland from Ireland in 1769) was a Catholic in a predominantly Protestant area and likely would have already been being persecuted for that. Children accusing random people of witchcraft was not uncommon back in the day - it's more or less how the Salem witch trials started - and maybe the children of the town accused Elly of being a witch for some reason (maybe she wasn't fond of children, or they were simply parroting their parents' anti-Catholic rhetoric to a more extreme end). According to the mockumentary, Elly was taken out of town, blindfolded, and tied to a tree, during one of the worst winters of the century. Following this, two things could have happened: one, she died of exposure and her ghost is what's been haunting the town, able to take different forms and possess or influence people; or two, as a previous WMG suggests, there was already some kind of supernatural power lurking in the woods that turned her into a sort of EldritchAbomination, giving her supernatural powers that she uses to torment the town that was so cruel to her. The reason she targets children is because the children of Blair (later Burkittsville) were the ones who brought about her suffering in the first place.

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In the mockumentary ''The Curse of the Blair Witch'', which was part of the movie's ViralMarketing, the legend of the Blair witch is discussed at length. One commentator mentions that Elly Kedward (who apparently came to Maryland from Ireland in 1769) was a Catholic in a predominantly Protestant area and likely would have already been being persecuted for that. Children accusing random people of witchcraft was not uncommon back in the day - it's more or less how the Salem witch trials started - and maybe the children of the town accused Elly of being a witch for some reason (maybe she wasn't fond of children, or they were simply parroting their parents' anti-Catholic rhetoric to a more extreme end). According to the mockumentary, Elly was taken out of town, blindfolded, and tied to a tree, during one of the worst winters of the century. Following this, two things could have happened: one, she died of exposure and her ghost is what's been haunting the town, able to take different forms and possess or influence people; or two, as a previous WMG suggests, there was already some kind of supernatural power lurking in the woods that turned her into a sort of EldritchAbomination, giving her supernatural powers that she uses to torment the town that was so cruel to her. The reason she targets children is because the children of Blair (later Burkittsville) were the ones who brought about her suffering in the first place.place.

[[WMG: The Blair Witch project is just one long, epic, prank.
Why? Because the gang wanted to pull of the biggest prank in modern day history. In reality they're all laughing their asses off having fooled so many people.
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* That wouldn't make sense, though. I mean think about it: as noted above, changing the flow of the river doesn't make sense. Plus why would they go through all of THAT nonsense when they could kill heather "normally"? Although I agree that they led heather to danger on purpose there's definitely still something supernatural going on. To me I think it's more likely that they're part of some cult.

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