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Wizard Clip LbNA #16766

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jun 15, 2005
Location:
City:Middleway
County:Jefferson
State:West Virginia
Boxes:1
Planted by:Prof from Hamburg
Found by: toolie bird
Last found:Aug 28, 2021
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFOFF
Last edited:Jun 15, 2005
Placed by The Professor from Hamburg and The White Orchid

On a rainy night in the early 1700s, a Stranger came to the door of farmer John Livingston (aka Livingstone) asking for shelter from a storm. The farmer graciously let the Stranger in, but within a few hours, the Stranger fell gravely ill and, near death, asked his host to send for a Catholic priest so he could receive Last Rites. Livingston, a Protestant, denied the request. At the stroke of midnight, the Stranger died and was buried in unconsecrated ground on Livingston’s farmland. Shortly thereafter, strange occurrences began happening at the Livingston home and throughout the village of nearby Middleway. Heavy rocks would fly up in the air and whirl around, cattle died, and strange demonic sounds could be heard. The most haunting thing that happened, however, was the sound of shears clipping all day and all night. Half-moon shapes began appearing everywhere – in clothing and bed linens, on house shutters, even on saddles and bridles. One night, Livingston dreamed that a man in flowing robes would help him get rid of the “Wizard Clip.” The man in the dream was a Catholic priest. Livingston quickly summoned a priest from a nearby town who performed an exorcism at the farmhouse and consecrated the land on which the Stranger had been curried. The wizard and his demon clippers disappeared. Livingston was so grateful that he converted to Catholicism and deeded nearly 40 acres of his farmland to the Catholic Church for the use of a priest.

Is it just a legend?? Many of the details of the story have been historically validated. The Catholic Church still owns a large section of land near Middleway (Priest Field Pastoral Center on Route 51), and a stranger’s grave can be found there . . .

Location
From Route 51, take Route 1 (Leetown Road) into historic Middleway.

Clues

Walk the streets of the village of Clip
In which the invisible scissors snipped,
Zigzagging throughout the days and nights
After a stranger was refused Last Rites.
Rely on the numbers, but don’t be seen,
Discover your goal across from 19.

Come to the place where the dead abide,
Look for the Haysletts side-by-side.
In the crotch of an old maple tree
Pick up the rock and the box you will see!

New supplies placed 8/2/14. Note: A second box, originally located in Priest Field, has been retired since the property now has a "No Trespassing" sign.