The bridge outside Greenfield

Ohio · USA · Bridge

The story at this bridge near Greenfield, Ohio is about a woman the town had decided was a witch.

They chased her. She was carrying her baby and running hard, and when she reached the bridge she hit the side of it trying to stop, and dropped the child into the water.

What she did then is the rest of it.

The crowd is the part that is not usually in these stories. Most crybaby bridge legends have a mother acting alone, out of shame or desperation. This one has a town chasing her, which shifts the whole account: she loses the child because she is being hunted.

Women accused of witchcraft in nineteenth century rural America were not tried. They were driven out, and sometimes worse, by their neighbours.

The bridge is on a rural road.

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Hvor ligger The bridge outside Greenfield?

The bridge outside Greenfield ligger i Ohio, USA.

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