THE APPALACHIAN LEGEND OF THE WIZARD CLIP: America's First Poltergeist

In the early 1790s, a Lutheran family in Appalachia fell victim to a menacing spirit that clergy as well as Folk magic practitioners failed to remove. The entity, Wizard Clip, was said to cut or slice anything made of cloth or leather. Was it a ghost or demon? After years of torment, the family finally found respite from a Catholic exorcist. Well illus.