[Music] [Music] these old mountains they held a lot of secrets over time and unfortunately so did a lot of its people now we'll be talking about mountain wedges now this is a subject that people think oh donny you don't you don't know what you're talking about there is no such thing oh our elders could tell you so much different and some of them are still around today to share their stories what they believe and what really happened to them so we'll look at this so this old legend and saying it still goes on in these
mountains so let's get started now everybody's heard of witches they're just fantasy tales fairy tales folklore and stuff to ski to secure the kids i've heard them all my life growing up my grandmother used to tell me about them all the time these witches flying moving around trying to find little kids and she'd scare us to death with visions of which looking like this going around snatching up little kids and eating them because that was just just for the children but on a serious note fact is stranger than fiction in these old mountains now best
i can figure some research this is not my specialty i'm not much on this subject but i thought i would share this with you best i could come up with the different kinds of witches in these old mountains over the years that our elders have told us about is one of course the evil witches these are ones that aligned herself with evil the devil and all the dark hearts and these are the ones that cause mischief in these mountains for so much misery for so many people and the next up is the witch doctor the
witch doctor is the people that would counteract the evil spells and hexes put on people and farms and animals by the evil witches they were the good witches and then there was the medicine witches which cured all the elements and took care of all the sicknesses to the natural herbs of the mountains they knowed all the roots and plants to cure people and that's what they done more like a medicine woman and the fourth one is water wedges this is a common one that still goes on today i know i can do this myself this
don't work for many people this is where you find water and things under the ground so let's get started now a lot of people think well they nobody believes in that crap well yes they do the elders did and they still do to this day look at these barns now when i growed up these barns were just barns i never seen none of these hex symbols put on barns it's more of a trend nowadays than it did anything just decorative but it wasn't back then especially in pennsylvania and northern appalachia they put these on barns
to protect from evil spirits and hexes from mountain wedges you can see here they're still going on today but like i said it's more of a trend now and just decorative we'll start out with some history there's a lot of history on these so these witches now way back in europe they had a lot of which problem they accused a lot of innocent people i'd say of witchery and they executed they burned them at the stake or hung and a lot of them escaped over to this country and a lot of people that come into
this country especially german dutch they brought a lot of their traditions with and unfortunately i would say some witch traditions too a lot of people been executed in the east for wintry and a lot of people have suffered from some medicine some not and back in these old mountains they migrated with the settlers an old history here in tennessee everybody's heard of the bell witch right here's some a story on it everybody knows it if you don't it's not hard to find even done a lot of research in it i can't figure that one out
a lot of newspaper articles on it too from way back [Music] even uh even one of our expert andrew jackson had problems with this history on that now these old mountains these people live so hard some of the remote ruggedest places you'd ever see and they tried their best to scratch a living off the land and some people were good and some were not now a lot of these old people especially the old women they could tell you tales about these witches these are all kinds of stories that they've told that hexes has put on
them and they're they're livestock and their family and all kinds of history about this stuff i'm just going to touch briefly on the different witches and most of these people in these mountains were real religious they attended church regularly they believed in god the lord jesus christ and they read the bible all the time and the bible says of all this evil in the world and they believed it they believe in evil curses and they believe in hexes that's just part of just like superstition in these mountains the first up we talk about is the
evil witches these are the one that put hexes on people and their farms are livestock they're family people they were they were just up to mischief no good a lot of people said reports that when they milked the cows the cow would go dry not superstition but their cows would still have given milk they would give blood and they would claim the witches put a hex on so they didn't know who it was you never know who who was doing this against family or the farms or the people they never did know somebody had a
revenge against the family or just a family feud you never did know they couldn't really know who it was so they couldn't just accuse people if they did they'd be their own mountain justice here they didn't need nothing else they'd take care of it yourself that's the way it was in these old mountains so they never didn't know who it was so they would get a witch doctor somebody that would counteract these spells that the evil witch was putting on these farms or these people and whatever that bad witch evil which hex they put on
the witch doctor would counteract it so whatever happened that they had made a curse or a hexon it would reverse it it would happen to the person that caused it and i've heard all kinds of stories about this now these old people in these lands they worked hard and they had a lot of sickness in here too remember now we're going to talk about medicine with you these people didn't have no doctors no medicine they lived off the land and the cures that the land provided now what we'll be talking about is what they call
granny witches medicine women herb people these people sobbed and fixed cures of herbs and roots off the land especially the old native american people they really know these herbs roots and plants to cure people and a lot of these babies they got sick they couldn't help them but a lot of them they cured them too with these roots and medicine that's the way it was in these mountains now it's said that these medicine women and these old granny doctors they could cure a nosebleed with a verse out of the bible and here's the verse and
when i passed by thee i saw thee polluted in their own blood i said unto thou waste in their own blood lil yea i said unto thee when thou as waste in their own blood live that's the bible verse and it was stopped bleeding now we get into these mountains again we get into water witches this is the last of it and all the known witches this is a common thing they just called them that because it was mysterious how they could find water now some people could do this and it'll work for a lot
of people that don't even know what to work for but some people it don't work here they use willow sticks different types of wood and it didn't matter what sex she was if he was able to do it you could do it it was a mental thing this is one they still cannot comprehend how it works it's a mental thing there's a force in nature that this works but it don't work for everyone now here this is me this is what i use it does work for me i didn't believe it either for years and
years ago somebody showed it to me and i found my busted water lines and stuff it's just simple coat hangers i use with no handles and when you come across what your mind is set on looking for it will cross and there'd be and i'm absolutely positive that it works because i've used it and you can make your own just an old regular metal coat hanger you cut it here i just showed this for an example and here's what i've been using this is how i cut them and bend them put them in my hand
this is a force in nature that man cannot understand but it does work i actually know it works you can even buy these online i was surprised to see these when i was doing some research you can buy them but why buy them when you can make them now these old mountains and these old people they're real religious but they're superstitious and they've seen things happen in these mountains that we could oh we we couldn't even comprehend the stories that they could tell us these mountains are so beautiful but they're so mysterious and they still
forces in nature that man will never understand most of these old stories are just wise tales and folklore but there's a lot of truth in them too so whatever you hear is a folklore or a little legend there's some truth behind it or it wouldn't be there now these mountains are so mysterious but they're so beautiful but these things that man does not know he thinks he knows but he don't know nothing that's just the way it is in nature now i hope you've enjoyed this i just touched briefly on some of these mountain witches
if you really really get interested in this i'll leave a link in the description under the video where you could really listen to some of these old people that's been interviewed on what they think about mountain witches so i want to thank you for watching and i'll see you next time [Music] you
