a grim rock story - Witch Diggers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBgSFbEgOjM
 The Witch Diggers
Stories, A History of Appalachia
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There was once a family that became obsessed with ridding the world of witches, which, according to them, were EVERYWHERE!  
www.mountainlore.net

"Rocky Ravine."
http://ingenweb.org/injennings/pages/histories/Witch%20Diggers.html
The "Real" Witch Diggers
A Campbell Township Tragedy
By Sheila Kell
The lives of these people were the basis for the book "The Witch Diggers" written by Jessamyn West and published in 1951.

piet: that book is on archive.org .... i love most of her work ...
but ..... upon closer inspection ... this tale is about a burial and wedding .. only peripherally about the Bichlers. |||||| The first real ref [and a one liner at that, .. barely real] comes nearly halfway in chapter 6 .... i think she was incensed at and tired of her ancestral Poor House runners being associated with loonies and wrote a tale about ordinary birth and death

vid description continued:
 Jessamyn West's maternal great grandparents James & Lida McManaman managed the Poor Farm when Susan & Samuel were there.
    Sometime between 1833 and 1839 a family emigrated from Switzerland to Darke County, Ohio. They were John and Magdalena Bishlen, their son John and daughter Susan.
All sorts of hard luck leads to this:
They did not try to tend their crops or care for the farm; they were consumed with killing the witches.
1885, after a journo visit, they attract an audience ....

 In one instance when they had dug up a large rock, they gave it a chance to get Nicholas's pension approved, before they broke it up (killed it). ........... declared insane. .............. Bislean, Bishleau, Bishler, Bishlan, Bishlen etc.

it's prolly Bichler but .. you know ... dumb yanks ....


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Bichler Name Meaning & Bichler Family History at Ancestry.com®
Bichler Name Meaning South German: topographic name for someone who lived on a hill from Bavarian dialect Bichel 'hill' a variant of Bühel (see Buehler ). Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a seller or binder of books from Yiddish bukh 'book' + the agent suffix -ler. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022

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Pichler: Bedeutung, Definition ᐅ Wortbedeutung.info
Wohnstättenname für jemanden, der in der Nähe eines Hügels oder auf einem Hügel wohnt (bairische Form zu mittelhochdeutsch bühel "Hügel") Namensvarianten Bichler, Büchl, Büchle, Büchler, Pichl, Püchl Bekannte Namensträger Karoline Pichler, österreichische Schriftstellerin Beispielsätze 1) Frau Pichler ist ein Genie im Verkauf.