Abigail Withers was a witch, they say. She certainly knew how to spin a mystery, that's for sure. Raised by a coven and born under a dark star (or an eclipse, others report), she ran the small town of Sanctuary, MS. An unusually large number of black goats roamed free through the area, and hunters were forbidden from shooting them. Whether or not she was rich, she was often seen with fine clothing and in nice cars (never driving). Sometimes she was visited by politicians from Washington, or other places far away. She would have orgies, atimes, complete with blood drinking and demon worship, on the night of the full moon, it is whispered. Who knows the truth of it now? In 1923, she had a series of photographs taken, for... reasons unspoken. They were public knowledge, having been reported by a neighboring town's paper (the editor mysteriously fell over a ship railing. Twice. No more stories about her appeared in that paper thereafter), but the photos themselves were thought lost to time. Fortunately (or not?), the negatives were recovered, found hidden in a barn about to be demolished. This is surprising, because she claimed that the negatives and the photographer were destroyed in a great fire (the photographer was a jilted lover, and he, at least, survived. He moved to Wisconsin and prospered in commercial photography for cheese makers. But he never spoke of Abigail to anyone until he died in 1971). Abigail Withers herself disappears from public records sometime in the Spring of 1942. Perhaps she is still dancing in the woods, consorting with the black goats that never left the region. Folks say it is bad luck to kill them, even now. They certainly don't taste very pleasant.