This bronze statue honors Grace Sherwood, the Virginia woman convicted of witchcraft after a 1706 ducking trial in what was then Princess Anne County. The monument depicts Sherwood with a raccoon and stands on publicly accessible grounds near Sentara Bayside Hospital, giving the famous Witch of Pungo story a specific modern stop.
Filed under folklore: stories a place tells about itself, passed down and still repeated.
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Source: Roadside America