WHO PUT BELLA IN THE WITCH ELM is a graffiti message that started appearing soon after a 1941 unsolved murder. The graffiti was last sprayed onto the side of a 200 year-old obelisk on 18 August 1999, in white paint. On 18 April, 1943, four boys were poaching in Hagley Woods near to Wychbury Hill when they came across a large Wych Hazel, a tree often confused by local residents with a Wych Elm. Believing this a good place to hunt birds’ nests, one boy attempted to climb the tree to investigate. As he was climbing, he glanced down into the hollow trunk and discovered a skull, believing it to be that of an animal. However, after seeing human hair and teeth, he realized that he was holding a human skull.
Today I showed my friend a cut on my hand and asked if it looked infected. He said maybe I should put some alcohol on it. Alcohol. ALCOHOL????? SO I STOOD UP AND PUNCHED HIM IN THE FACE AND THEN DRANK HIS TEARS AND SAID “I’M STRAIGHT FUCKIN EDGE I’LL SEE YOU IN THE FUCKIN PIT.”
(Source: second-impact)
Get thee back into the tempest
And the Night’s Plutonian shore!William Ladd Taylor, from The raven, by Edgar Allan Poe, New York, 1884.
(Source: archive.org)
