Thread: Blair Witch Stick Figures

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Originally Posted by thegingerowl

I was hiking off-trail in the woods last autumn and came across a few someone had randomly strung up...it was quite spooky (the weird quietness of the forest accentuated this) and my friend and I didn't hang around, even though we had previously done the same thing at an old camp site one summer, lol! Good times.

Hahahah, that is too funny! I wouldn't have stuck around either, who knows!

They were creepy, and to the observer they may suggest a human shape, but they really didn't mean anything specific - which may be why they were so creepy, the enigma of them.

Were they small symbols of the 'witch's' victims?
Were they an attempt at some stylized pentagram, or more accurately a pentacle?
Were they the personal sigil of the witch, markers for her territory?
Were they warnings made by other people to ward off traveler's from the witch's domain?
Who knows?

I like the idea of a few being hung with other things, like mobiles made of bones and feathers, witch jars lit with candles, animal skins, kitchen utensils like giant ladles, cleavers and forks...
and bags, bags with something twitching inside.

I share everyone's concern about kids missing the connection to the movie, but I think most people who hadn't seen the movie would instincitvely recognize their creepiness.
And Spats nailed it:

I like the idea of a few being hung with other things, like mobiles made of bones and feathers, witch jars lit with candles, animal skins, kitchen utensils like giant ladles, cleavers and forks...
and bags, bags with something twitching inside.

Awesome ideas for presentation!