Set in West Virginia (everyone’s favorite state for backwoods traditions, it seems), The Bog Wife details a tradition held by the Haddesley family through generations. It goes something like this: when the family patriarch is dying, he must be sacrificed to the bog. His entire family must carry him to the bog on a wood plank and leave him. After his body is subsumed by the bog, the eldest son must return naked and use a dowsing rod to summon a bog wife. This bog […]