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Esperance Witch Marker

Esperance, NY

Local legend tells of a widowed French woman accused of witchcraft by neighboring settlers during the nineteenth century. The story claims she was eventually shot through her window with a silver bullet and buried beneath a pine tree so she could not return, and a Legends & Lore marker now preserves the tale along Route 20.

Filed under folklore: stories a place tells about itself, passed down and still repeated.

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Source: wgpfoundation.org/historic-markers/esperance-witch/

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