Who is mary hatchet

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Hint: It's both Community Showcase More. Follow TV Tropes. You need to login to do this. Being an only child, and isolated from the other families in the area, Mary had few friends, and spent hours wandering in the woods and along the shore. Being made of stone and fed by a natural spring, the little building was warm during the winter and cool during the hot summer months. Life was lonely for her father as well, and by this time Mary had grown into what at the time was considered a young woman, a fact which had not escaped him.

There in the springhouse he had her for the first time, before eventually moving her into his bed. Mary was loyal to her father, and though she knew what he asked of her was wrong, there was little she could do. Her father was well thought of in the community and no one would believe her story if she told it. To run away was more dangerous than to stay, and so she accepted his advances, growing slowly and inexorably mad as time wore on. Mary had spent many long hours in the woods, and the creatures she found there had grown used to her presence.

It is said she had the power to draw these animals to her, which she did now as she sat in the springhouse, torn by guilt, torn by rage, and as they came to her she tore them limb from limb with the aid of the hatchet which was always kept there. It was then that she decided what she must do, and she went back to the house with the hatchet carefully hidden in the folds of her dress.

That night was a night like many others, and when her father called her into his bed, she came. She moved under cover of darkness, just a silhouette to her father, and standing over him as he lay there, brought the hatchet down into the center of his skull. Again and again her arm raised and fell, the weapon gripped tightly in her fist. Until eventually she stopped, climbed beneath the sheets and went to sleep. Eventually the townspeople took notice of his absence, and a few of them rode out to pay him a visit.

It was still early, and as there was no answer at the door they went inside. They could smell the stench of death, a smell that during those times would have been familiar to most. The townspeople, horrified by what she had done, and Mary far too mad now to defend herself against their accusations, dragged Mary from the house and down the hill to the tree which still stands alongside the road.

And there they hung her and put an end to a sad tragic life. And so Mary is seen sometimes, standing beside the tree where her life was cut short. Through the years the little house has become a test of bravery. Two questions arise: Why is the story, and indeed so many stories involving women named Mary, found not only around Long Island, but throughout the country? And second, how old is the story? Luckily for us, the names involved in the story might provide clues to its age.

And why is the basic tale so widespread? Mary is often described as a ghost dressed in white, but just as often, a woman with an angry or fearful expression, wearing Victorian era clothing and holding a hatchet or axe. And this part is simple, for Mary Hatchet was a historical, though fictional character, well known in the last part of the nineteenth and first part of the twentieth century.

Mary used her hatchet to bust open casks of liquor, and is frequently depicted as an angry woman, in Victorian era clothing, holding a hatchet. As time wore on, the name stuck to these old houses, which were typically of the Victorian era or older, the type which quite often find ghost stories attached to them.

The well not only fits the same pattern, but also pushes the date of the story back farther. Though in later years, sinister stories were told about Black Mary, it appears that originally she was a nun, and was called that either because of the color of her habit, or because she was originally of African origin.

When the English came to this country, quite often they would give the name to natural springs which they found here, as well as small ponds or lakes.

To begin with, the nearest settlement at the time would have been Saint James, which was named for the Episcopal church there, which showed that this was a heavily English area.

These tales had a practical aspect, in that they were intended to frighten children away from these areas, which were often dangerous. Incest in association with wells were also known throughout the history of folklore. A traveller, a class of people who move from place to place in Ireland, sang a song to a collector in which dates from the middle ages and was thought to be long lost.

The original was believed to be either English or Scottish in origin, and relates the story of a man traveling through the countryside, who meets a woman alongside a well.

There he learns that she has had several children, each by a different member of her family, and each that were killed at birth. It should also be mentioned, that Scandinavian versions of this song includes verses about Jesus meeting Mary Magdalene at a well, who claims to be a virgin, untill he tells her she has had children by her father, her brother and the village priest.

And so another, more ancient Mary enters the story. And of course none of these bits of evidence says anything about the historical facts of the tale, if indeed there are any. But I do get a feeling that the tale told of Mary at Head of the Harbor is quite old, perhaps as old as the original settlement there.

The Europeans who came to this continent brought their legends and folklore with them, and old ghosts found new haunts in the new world. There is actually a great documentary called Lost Suburbia about Mary Hatchet and about Kings Park Psych Center, you can check out the videos on our website at www.

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