Pine Barrens Witch

The Pine Barrens
Once had their own particular witch.

Pineys put salt over their doors,
To discourage visits.

The Witch of the Pines,
Peggy Clevenger.

She could turn herself into a rabbit.
For a dog was once seen chasing,
A rabbit.

The rabbit jumped through the window.
And there,
In the same instant-stood,
Peggy Clevenger.

A man saw a lizard.
Tried to kill it,
By crushing it with a rock.

When the rock hit the lizard,
The lizard disappeared.
Peggy Clevenger materialized.

On the spot,
Smacked the man
In the face

Clevenger is a Hessian name.

 Peggy lived
In Pasadena

Another of the now,
vanished,
towns
Five miles east of Mt. Misery.

It was said,
She had a stocking
     Full
        Of
           GOLD.

Her remains were found,
One morning
In the smoking ruins of her cabin,

But there was
            No
       Trace
    Of
gold.