THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT

Elly Kedward (1729 - February 1785) was an Irish woman who was banished from the town of Blair after several local people accused her of witchcraft.

Elly Kedward was born under the name Eilis Abaigeal Kedward in 1729 to Deiniol Aodhan (father) and Aedammair McAthain (mother) in Glengarriff, Ireland. Shortly after her birth, her mother bled out and passed away, making Elly Kedward an orphan. Within a short time after her mother's death, a grifter found Elly Kedward and left her at a Catholic orphanage. A while later, she started writing her diary. There, she described the abuse she suffered in foster care, and how she hid in fantasies. Her fantasies included her very own army, which were dolls made out of twigs (she describes them as "companions and protectors against the beasts of the world"). She finally fled the orphanage, to Skibbereen. There, Elly Kedward was attacked by bullies and then imprisoned, accused of being a child whore. The only thing she had left was her fantasies. Her only possessions were "bitterness, anger, resentment and fury"^[1]

In February 1785, several children accused Kedward of luring them into her home to draw blood from them. She was found guilty of sucking blood to make "magic potions", banished from the village during a particularly harsh winter, and presumed dead.^[2] Different reports state that the townspeople bounded Kedward to a wheelbarrow and escorted her into the woods, tied her to a tree, and left her for dead.

Young children from the township returned to investigate if Elly had died yet. They found her alive and still tied to the tree. The children sent dogs after her and slashed her with sticks and knives. They dipped their hands in her blood and pressed handprints into her flesh before untying her and hanging her from the very same tree.

By midwinter, all of Elly Kedward's accusers, along with half of the town's children, vanished. Fearing of being cursed or bewitched, the townspeople fled Blair and vowed never to utter the name Elly Kedward again.

On 1786, Elly spirit attempt to take over the body of Elizabeth Styler for her complete ancension and ressurection, but was prevented by Jonathan Prye who thwarted her plan of return.