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White Witch of Rose Hall

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Annie Palmer arrived in Jamaica from England in the 18th century. She married a landowner and became the mistress of a large plantation. The reason why she became so cruel is unknown but she ruled the plantation with an iron fist, punishing her slaves with public whippings, torture in her dungeon or death.   Eventually she started to sleep with the male slaves. Her slave lovers were doomed though. When she grew bored of them she would murder them while they slept and it wasn’t long before her husband shared the same fate. Out of boredom she demanded that her slaves teach her voodoo. Annie then took to threatening them with black and sacrificing babies to use their bones for spells. The overseer of the plantation was a voodoo user himself and when Annie started sleeping with his daughter’s fiancĂ© he started to worry for the young man’s fate. When the daughter’s fiancĂ© was murdered the overseer decided that he had had enough and killed Annie. He placed her body in a speci...