The Pine Barrens-
Had, once, their own particular witch.
Pineys put salt
Over their doors
To discourage visits from the Witch of the Pines,
Peggy Clevenger.
It was known that she
Could turn herself into a rabbit,
For a dog was once sen chasing a rabbit
And the rabbit jumped through the window of a house,
And there
In the same instant
In the window
Stood Peggy Clevenger.
Another occasion
A man saw a lizard and tried
To kill it
By crushing it with a large rock.
When the rock hit the lizard it disappeared
And Peggy Clevenger materialized
On the spot
And smacked the man in the face.
Clevenger is a Hessian name- Peggy
Lived in Pasadena
Another of the now vanished towns, about
Five miles east of Mt. Misery.
It was said that 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.
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