The Legend of the White Rose

Birrell - wonderful picture and wonderful remark. But let's not forget Kurt Huber, one of their professors at the University of Munich. He was the sixth member of the "Weisse Rose" and the one who reviewed all leaflets before they got printed. He even wrote the last one. I think this pretty well invalidates the relatively common assertion that all German soldiers were Nazis. A great number of soldiers fairly soon realized that Hitler was about to let Germany drift to a wrong direction.

The latter had tried to fight against Hitler and his sick plans since the s, when Hitler and his companions were just on the rise. Of course, I'm not trying to say the Wehrmacht and the Germans in general were the victims. We all know that's not true. Most of them are to blame because they looked away or blindly followed a megalomaniac dictator. What I try to say is that you should always try and understand the whole story. Needless to say, this is the case with all conflicts and wars.

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Inform yourself, then form an opinion. I am happy that in history there were always people who stood up for peace and against aggression and violence. And the "Weisse Rose". What would the world be without those courageous personalities? My white rose for peace i may only be a child in so meny peoples eyes but i want peace for the world. Saaj 12 years ago.

The Legend of the White Witch of Rose Hall

Mc Shutter 12 years ago. GangaSunshine Posted 12 years ago. Edited by GangaSunshine member 12 years ago. B I R D Posted 12 years ago. Edited by B I R D member 12 years ago. Please continue to plant seeds of hope here. Cocoabiscuit Posted 12 years ago. Edited by Cocoabiscuit member 12 years ago. If any were caught not whistling, she would cut their heads off as punishment for the supposed theft of food. Due to her extreme cruelty, and regular practice of Voodoo, the slaves took to calling her the White Witch of Rose Hall.

Annie married two more times, murdering both husbands for their money. It is said that she killed her second husband by stabbing him in the chest while he was sleeping. She then poured boiling oil in his ears to make sure he was dead. She killed her third husband by strangulation, with the help of her slave lover, Takoo. Annie's downfall began when she fell for an Englishman by the name of Robert Rutherford. Rutherford had no interest in her as he was in love with Takoo's granddaughter. To get the granddaughter out of the way, Annie cast a Voodoo spell on her.

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Known as an "old hige," the spell was said to bring about a visit from a ghost that would cause the person whom it visited to slowly wither and die. Takoo became so angered at the death of his granddaughter that he attacked Annie and strangled her to death. The slaves took her body and buried it in a deep hole on the estate. They then burned all her possessions, for fear they might be tainted by her spirit. Then a Voodoo ritual was carried out to insure that her spirit could not escape its deep grave.

The ritual was, however, performed incorrectly, freeing Annie's ghost to haunt Rose Hall.

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It is believed that Rose Hall escaped the fate of most of the other great houses during the slave rebellion because the slaves believed that burning the house down would release Annie's spirit from the property, freeing it to go wherever it choose. It is also said that subsequent owners of the estate met with early and often gruesome ends, and that this is why the great house has stood empty for more than years. This legend makes for a great ghost story and has proven a boon to Jamaican tourism, especially at Rose Hall, but a ghost story is all it is.

It could not be further from the true story of Annie Palmer. The true story of Annie Palmer is certainly much less dramatic than the legend. She was not brought up in Haiti, nor did she have a Haitian Nanny, and she most certainly had no training in Voodoo. John Rose Palmer was Annie's first, and only, husband.

There is little known about their life together but it seems to have been a relatively normal, and peaceful, existence. Their time at Rose Hall was a short one, and neither of them died there. The huge debts attached to the Rose Hall and Palmyra estates were more than John Rose Palmer could absorb, or the estates recover from. Both properties eventually passed into the hands of the receivers. The Rose Hall great house stood abandon for more than years, falling into a terrible state of disrepair, before a massive restoration returned it to its former glory.

Annie Palmer did not kill her husband, or anybody else. John died in of natural causes. There is also no record of her ever having tortured or mistreated a slave. In fact, the estate had been cared for by just one or two slaves for years, and once it was turned over to the receivers John and Annie kept no slaves at all. When Annie herself died in , fifteen years after she was supposedly murdered by her slave lover, she left what little she had to her God-daughter Giolia Mary Spence.

So how did such an innocent woman, living such a quiet and uneventful life, become the subject of such a horrendous story?

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The seeds of the legend were sewn in when a Falmouth newspaper editor published a booklet containing many of the elements of the current tale. The difference was that this story had Rosa Palmer as the White Witch, and the murders and other terrible deeds attributed to her. The fact that she had actually had four husbands helped to give the story some "credibility" and, as happens with legends, others added their own parts to the story.

In a book on the history of St. James was published which retold the story but with Annie as the central figure. Then, in , Annie Palmer's fate was forever sealed, as fact and fiction became inextricably intertwined in the Herbert G. It seemed to matter not to people that this was a work of fiction. Whatever elements had been left out of the legend by the other two erroneous publications had now been supplied, and people were happy to believe it.

Whether or not Rose Hall is truly haunted is hard to say for certain, as much depends on individual beliefs. Many people claim to have seen a shadowy figure, dressed in a green velvet riding habit, riding a black horse across the estate grounds. Others say they have seen the figure of a woman dressed all in white on the stairs outside of the great house, and to have caught glimpses of the same figure moving about inside the building. There have also been reports of screams and the sound of running footsteps heard coming from various rooms throughout the house, especially the cellar area, which now serves as the gift shop.

If the place is actually haunted it can be said for certain that it has nothing to do with a white witch, murdered husbands, tortured slaves, or Voodoo rituals. Though it could very well be Annie Palmer, come back from the grave to try to clear her tarnished name. Annie Palmer - decodedpast. It is not so much that people lie. It is, as with many legends, a case of stories growing and changing as they spread. Whether by word of mouth or in writing, embellishment happens. How do you know that the husband died of natural causes?

What are your reliable sources? I do not know for certain but it seems unlikely. All stories of witches have certain common elements, just as all stories of vampires, werewolves, or other such. Though some of these common elements exist here I believe that that is all it is.

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The house has been very well restored, complete with a gift shop. Whether or not it is haunted depends on the beliefs of the individual. What I do know for certain is that the story of the White Witch is, for the most part, not factual. No, she was not. Annie Palmer was not brought up in Haiti, did not have a Haitian nanny, and did not train in or practice voodoo. She only had the one husband, who died of natural causes, and neither she nor her husband died at Rose Hall. She was a normal person who led a relatively normal life. Sign in or sign up and post using a HubPages Network account.

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John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Many people claim to have seen and heard strange and unexplained things at Rose Hall, and just because the story of Annie Palmer is not true does not mean that the place is not haunted. Thank you Rafael, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I do try to put a little extra effort into the research and present as much fact as possible, instead of just retelling the same old ghost stories.

All these haunted houses and places seem to have a tragic and complicated story behind them. I have never heard of Rose Hall before this. The story of the haunting in Lumley castle in UK, and Kuldhara in India made me do some research in haunted places, and your article is very detailed and well written! Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. HubPages and Hubbers authors may earn revenue on this page based on affiliate relationships and advertisements with partners including Amazon, Google, and others.

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