{"id":28300,"date":"2024-04-04T08:45:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T12:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=28300"},"modified":"2024-04-04T14:20:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T18:20:02","slug":"guest-contributor-ed-brault-04apr2024-the-witchs-curse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/04\/guest-contributor-ed-brault-04apr2024-the-witchs-curse\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Contributor – Ed Brault – 04APR2024 – The Witch’s Curse"},"content":{"rendered":"

I grew up not too far from Dunwich; Danvers, MA, better known among the arcana-read as the real site of the Salem Witch trials. Back then it was known as Salem Village, while modern Salem was Salem Towne. Growing up I noticed that when a storm was forecast to bring, say nine inches of snow, we got 12. Or a Foot was forecast and we got 18 inches.<\/p>\n

I finally had a chance to put this question to no less than Don Kent, meteorologist at WBZ-TV. He looked me in the eye and said \u201cYou\u2019re from Danvers aren\u2019t you?\u201d I said yes, and just why is the weather so weird? He answered honestly \u201cWe don\u2019t know\u2026BUT\u2026\u201d and then he told me about how, during the Trials, one of the accused witches, on the way to the gallows, laid a curse on the town, that it should always suffer a harder winter than the rest of the county. And this curse WORKED! Even changing the town\u2019s name didn\u2019t help (That\u2019s why the town seal says \u201cWithout the King\u2019s Consent\u201d. They did it without the approval of the Colonial Office.)
\nBest regards to the First Select-Entity. The Eldrich Powers are hard at work in other regions as well.<\/p>\n

[Editor’s Note – The First Selectman sends his greetings to his cousins on the shore and hopes they are enjoying the weather they ordered a while back from his cousin.\u00a0 Gurgle, glug, gurgle, gurgle glug glug glug.]<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reply from Tregonsee 314<\/strong><\/p>\n

I live just down the road from Danvers, Close enough that when the leaves are off the trees I can see the remaining building of the Danvers State Hospital (https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Danvers_State_Hospital<\/a>\u00a0)<\/p>\n

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the alleged inspiration for Lovecraft\u2019s Arkham Asylum (amazingly there are now expensive Condos there, with only the historic main tower remaining as a shared space). Our little town was part of Salem Village but split in the early 18th century from Danvers. We also seem to share in that curse \ud83d\ude42 . It has to be true Mr. Kent was one of New England\u2019s top meteorologists for most of my life and if that was the explanation\u00a0he<\/strong>\u00a0had that is good enough for me, certainly nothing else makes sense,<\/p>\n

Reply from photog<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tregonsee. there used to be a similar mental hospital in Worcester.<\/p>\n

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Likewise it was recently demolished leaving only a replica clocktower to mark its former presence. But when it stood it was an eerie reminder of a different world.<\/p>\n

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Voigtlander 10mm e-mount Clock Tower vertical angle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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