Case file · Witch trials
Ozark witch lore (Vance Randolph)
Vance Randolph's 'Ozark Superstitions' (1947) recorded hill people's beliefs about witches who cursed cattle, rode people at night and were made by renouncing God at midnight on a hilltop.
1947 CE · 36.40, -93.74 · status: account
The account
Randolph gathered the material across the Arkansas and Missouri Ozarks from the 1920s. He also described 'witch masters' who broke spells by shooting a silver bullet at a drawing of the witch.