Annie Palmer,"the white witch" was born in France in the 1700's. She was an orphan, who was so small she was barely 4 feet tall. She married a man in England, then moved to his sugar plantation in Jamaica, Rose Hall.
Every morning she would go out onto a small balcony where below all the slaves would be assembled. While having her breakfast, she would issue her orders..including punishments and executions. It is said she murdered her husband, and two other husbands after. She also had a habit of taking slaves into her bed, then murdering them when she tired of them. It is not known exactly how she got into Voodoo but can be from a nanny when she was young, or some of her slaves in order to earn her favor.
Her demise came by the hand of her Overseer, a slave who's daughter was to be married to a young man. Annie had called for him to her bed. The Overseer started preparations to try to protect the young man, thinking she would play with him for a couple of weeks like usual. For some reason, Annie killed him the first night, and the Overseer went on a rampage. He prepared a voodoo grave in the back of the house, confronted her killing her and sacrificing his own life. The slaves took her body and burried her, as well as destroying all pictures of her in a voodoo ritual.
When I took the tour of the plantation, it was really sad. They showed where the slaves were imprisioned in the basement waiting for execution. Also, on some of the walls in the bedrooms it is said that it still had bloodstains on it when it was renovated in the 1970's.
Johnny Cash had a house on the grounds, and it is said that it was one of his favorite places. He also wrote a song about Annie.
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