![]() Wetherald, editor of the Alma Journal Frank Griggsby, the area's leading carriage dealer and Ashton C. ![]() Prominent politicians and businessmen were sometimes rumored to have been visited by a Woman in Black. One account claims she appeared suddenly to four men of the Disciples of Christ church in Tazewell, Virginia, and scared them so badly they all ran home. It was said that her alleged appearances in Roanoke had the salutary effect of keeping married men home with their wives and families rather than going out each night. ![]() If continued, the men would be killed at the location where he committed his act. Sometimes a Woman in Black was said to hit, pummel, or knock a man down to the ground or "slap him to the earth with a swish of her phantom garments" as retribution for his sins. According to one tale, she appeared "suddenly and unexpectedly" in Roanoke, Virginia in 1902 to men who had stayed too long at their club, insisting they go home as quickly as possible. Folklore holds that towns such as Bristol, Virginia, Tazewell, Virginia, Lynchburg, Virginia and Richmond, Virginia Jackson, Minnesota were visited by a Woman in Black. ![]() In Appalachian folklore, a " Woman in Black" is a supernatural figure appearing in various regions throughout the southern and western United States in the early to mid 1900s.Īccording to legend, a Woman in Black typically appeared to men who had misbehaved, cheated on their wives, or committed some moral transgression. ![]() Supernatural figure in Appalachian folklore ![]()
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