Molly Brant

First appears: A "True" Witch Story

In “A "True" Witch Story,” Molly Brant is named as the parent of a man who was also the child of Governor W. Johnson. A witch used a beaver thigh-bone from their child in a ritual that relieved an old woman’s pain, though her sight was not restored.

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Life events

• The witch used a beaver thigh-bone from Molly Brant and Governor W. Johnson’s child in a ritual that relieved the old woman’s pain.(A "True" Witch Story)
  • With: the man who was the child of Molly Brant (Chapter 020) Governor W. Johnson
  • “The bone was brought, and by the time it arrived she had scoured a brass kettle, and had clean water poured into it. As soon as she received the bone, which was hollow, she placed it against the eye that was not painful and spat through it. After a while she ceased spitting, and looked in the water. A spider was running around in the kettle. She covered it over with her handkerchief, then removed it, and a feather lay there instead of the spider. The pain left the old woman but the sight was not restored.”

A "True" Witch Story

• child: the man who was the child of Molly Brant (Chapter 020) “Fetch me the thigh-bone of a beaver from a man who is the child of Molly Brant, the child of Governor W. Johnson.”
• parent: Governor W. Johnson “Fetch me the thigh-bone of a beaver from a man who is the child of Molly Brant, the child of Governor W. Johnson.”

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Extracted from the original text of Myths of the Iroquois. Made with Rho MD.