Sam and Dean Winchester vs. The Witches Ball

As I continue my Supernatural season one DVD marathon I find myself looking up some creepy myths online - at night - alone. The night I was writing this particular post I had just added the above picture and was about done when all of the electricity went kaput for about five minutes in the entire area (I checked outside). Creepy coincidence? You tell me. I’ll be cuddling up to a blanket and watching my cat for odd behavior.
So, what was it that I was looking up online that was getting me freaked? The Witches Ball. If you Google for ‘The Witches Ball‘ you’ll come across an overwhelming variety of different sites. Places like Salem Massachusetts have Halloween parties which are given that name. That was exactly the sort of image that was first conjured in my mind with the phrase. I was picturing people dressed in pointy witch hats and gyrating to songs like ‘I’ve Put a Spell On You’. (And nooooww you’re mine! Muah - ha - ha!)
The deeper you look, there is something else that goes by the name The Witches Ball. It is, ironically enough, an actual ball of marble which serves at a tombstone in the Myrtle Hill Road Ohio cemetery. The local Ohio lore says that it marks the grave of an ‘evil witch‘ who was buried standing straight up with the marble ball over her so she couldn’t rise from the dead. Of course, there’s a completly contradictory story about the woman buried there being the murderer of her family. That seems to be a less popular theory.
I would love to see this explored on The CW’s Supernatural sometime. As you can already see, I found some YouTube videos which use The Witches Ball as the video subject. The first one has some neat video aging effects. But it’s the second video I really want to discuss.
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