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6/1/2009
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What's In A Name? Virginia Beach's Witchduck Road
Author: Kathy Adams Source: The Virginian-Pilot
Title: WHAT'S IN A NAME? VIRGINIA BEACH'S WITCHDUCK ROAD
More than 300 years ago, a series of strange events struck local farmers.
Cotton plants withered. Cows' milk dried up. Husbands' eyes wandered from their wives.
Who was to blame? According to the local women, Grace Sherwood.
The farmer's wife knew a little too much about herbs, was a little too pretty and wore clothing that was a little too tight, according to local historians. So they accused her of witchcraft.
A judge ordered Sherwood to be tried by ducking.
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| Place Names | Jun 1st. at 4:48:26 pm EDT
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Jskelly (Ashland, Virginia) - Email Me
Our fair state has some interesting place names. Conjurors Neck, Pagan River, Dragon Swamp are a few.
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web
And now we know how at least how long Virginia Beach has been culturally stupid. Worst thing the Navy ever did was set up shop right in the Hampton Roads area, and the Navy did plenty of bad things in its 229* year history.
*the United States Navy considers its birth, for some bass-ackward reason, to be in 1775 - over one year before the Declaration of Independence was signed
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