Blair Witch
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Throughout time people have created ways to explain people who they felt were different than them. They have looked at one of the oldest forms of religion, Wicca as different, and have used the "witch" to explain people who were different from society. This definition of a witch creates the Blair Witch. The first and most important part is the Blair Witch is a woman. In society today, to be a witch, you must be a woman. She was also different than the society surrounding her, and looked down upon by those around her because of it. Similarly to the witches of the Salem witch trials, the Blair witch was banished from the town of Blair by children, where she began her career as a full-fledged witch. The Blair Witch was the stereotypical witch she was evil, old, dressed in black, had supernatural powers and used them to hunt children.
The first scene that is significant to our modern construction of the witch is the one in which Mary Brown discusses her encounter with the Blair Witch. Her encounter supports all of the stereotypes created about the witch...