Bury them as deep as you can so that the witches never rise from their graves.
A bit of history
Witches have long been a part of our entire history and mythology, and many women have been condemned to unfair accusations of witchcraft and dealing with the devil. During the witch hunt, which began in the 15th century and lasted two centuries, an estimated forty thousand people were accused and executed for witchcraft in Western Europe. Also, hunting has spread to colonial regions in New England, Connecticut, New Haven and, of course, one cannot forget the results of the notorious trials in Salem. The most common methods of punishment for convicted witches are gallows, drowning, or burning at the stake.
While much of the final burial sites of many of the victims have been lost to history, the next five graves "do" their best to remind us of the darkest sides of human nature.
Yazu Witch
This sorceress has the same characteristics as mythological creatures. According to legend, in the late 1800s, a witch who lived along the Yazu River was caught by fishermen, whom she seduced by the river. After two corpses were found in her house, the witch immediately fled. Fleeing from power, she fell into quicksand. When she was dying, she told everyone that she saw how this city would burn down in the future. In 1904, her prophecy really came true - the city of Yazu was blinded by the flames. Since then, the witch's grave has been surrounded by chains. Legend has it that if the chains are broken, the city will soon burn down again.
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Grave of Meg Shelton
In the late seventeenth century, a woman named Mag Shelton was considered a witch by the villagers of Woodplumpton, a small town in Lancashire. They claimed that she constantly stole milk from foreign dairy farms, then drank it, turned into an animal at night and did all her mischievous things. According to legend, Meg was crushed to death by a barrel that pushed her against the wall. When she was buried, the city took extra precautions to completely shield itself from the witch and all of her abilities and so that she could never rise from the earth into the world of the living. The townspeople buried her vertically. They first lowered her head into the ground, into a small narrow shaft. This is in case she tries to get out, but goes in the wrong direction. Then they covered the hole with a very large stone so that she would never run away. The stone remains to this day in the cemetery of the Church of St. Anne, and next to it there is a small memorial plaque, an inscription on which warns all visitors that the witch lies underground, and this stone should not be lifted under any circumstances. so as not to wake her up.
Witch from Chesterville
In the heart of Amish ruled Illinois, a small cemetery houses the tomb of a witch from Chesterville. The story goes that in the early 1900s, a local woman was accused of witchcraft after she challenged the Amish religious belief. The city elders expelled the woman, whom they called the servant of the devil, but a few days later, her body was mysteriously found in a nearby field. Fearing that she might return to life and take revenge, the townspeople soon buried her, and an oak tree was planted at the burial site to somehow indicate her location. Legend also says that the tree contains the soul of a young woman, and if this tree is ever tried to be destroyed or cut down, then the ghost of the witch will leave her grave and take revenge on those who were interested in her death and contributed to it.
Lily Adi's grave
In 1704, in Scotland, Lilia Adi was accused by her fellow countrymen of being a witch. She was simply forced to confess to the church that she was the wife of the devil. She died in prison without waiting for her punishment. The authorities had serious intentions: they wanted to hang her or burn her at the stake for witchcraft, but, alas, they were not sued. Her body was taken to the coast and buried deep in the mud between high tide and low tide, using a large tombstone to cover the burial site. They laid the slab on her dirty grave so that it would not rise again and torment, not interfere with the lives of all other residents. However, legend has it that her body mysteriously disappeared when the tide came, but you can still find a large piece of stone that they used to bury her.
The witch whose mouth was clogged with claws
Throughout history, there have been numerous superstitious ways in which people have tried to prevent witches from rising from the grave. It seems that death was not a punishment for them. During a recent archaeological excavation of the witches' cemetery in Piombino, Tuscany, archaeologists discovered 800-year-old human remains belonging to a woman who they believe died in the Middle Ages. It seems that people in this area were so worried that the woman would use her powers to return from the dead to the world of the living in every possible way that seven claws were hammered into her jaw. More nails were driven into her body, pierced through her clothes to fix her in place in the shallow grave in which she was buried. The practice of nailing witches' mouths with nails was an old habit believed to have kept the dead in their graves.
These are the most famous legends and cases of the burial of witches. True or false, we will never know. But if these stories have passed to us through the centuries, and people are afraid to touch the burial places even today, rather than this, there is at least some truth in this. So be careful in these places!
Victoria Ivashura