Lizzie Borden

 One of the most famous American legendary figures, alongside Sleepy Hollow and Bigfoot, is a young woman named Lizzie Borden. She's associated with using an axe to butcher her family. Possibly considered one of the most infamous figures, portrayed as an "axe welding creepy girl" of the 19th Century. She has so much folklore and horror stories about her. There is even a children's nursery rhyme about her that goes like this:

Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave he father forty one. Andrew Borden now is dead. Lizzie hit him on the head. Up in heaven he will sing. On the gallows she will swing.

There are a few things to consider about this character. She was born Lizzie Borden, nicknamed Lizbeth, on 19th July in 1860, Fall River, Massachusetts. Her father was a successful businessman named Andrew Borden and Lizzie's mother was named Sarah. Lizzie had two sisters named Emma and Alice but one died very young. When Lizzie was three years old, her mother died. A few years later, Andrew married a woman named Abby Durfee Gray. Things didn't sound perfect that much in that family home afterwards. Lizzie didn't get on well with her stepmother, and the house itself had problems with leaks. Lizzie adored the flocks of pigeons that nested in the barn, and she liked to care for them and viewed them as her pets. However, her father might've considered them vermin, as he killed them using an axe, which made Lizzie feel distressed. 

There had been many family disputes and resentment feelings from the Borden girls when they discovered that their father gave expensive and large presents to the stepmother's relatives. 

Many believe that Lizzie killed her father and stepmother, although Lizzie was a suspect to their murders. Others state that she didn't kill them at all. Before the axe murders took place, the family fell ill with food poisoning. Andrew Borden had enemies. Lizzie's clothes were not covered in blood. A maid was inside the house washing windows upstairs during the time of the murders. Lizzie had been out in the barn when she heard a loud noise coming from the house. No blood was found on the weapon. Lizzie was arrested because the maid said she'd seen Lizzie burning a dress that she wore during the murders and heard Lizzie laughing.   

Both sisters set up a reward of $5,000 to find the killer of their father and stepmother. A journal belonging to Lizzie had been shown that she grieved the death of her father. She was found Not Guilty and eventually she moved on to live a life of luxury. Her life wasn't always that happy ever after, because she was made a social outcast. Her name tied with the axe murders and she became this folklore villain in the psyche always an axe murderess. 

Associated with her is the Lizzie Borden House, turned into a Bed and Breakfast, which is haunted and many visitors report something paranormal happening there. Many ghost hunters take trips there.

Posted by She Wolf Night team     

(Due to the new style of posting, I can't make paragraphs without it creating double spaces. Once I figure out a way to solves it, I will make better paragraphs when I type verse, songs and poems in future).  

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