The Naked Witch of Luckenbach
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linkys
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Luckenbach, Texas, the town that Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson immortalized in the song by the same name, is that all there is to Luckenbach or is there a secret in its past
Waymark Code: WM3AKB
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/05/2008
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Was there a naked witch of Luckenbach, Texas, or was it just a figment of Larry Buchanan's overactive imagination. This much we know for fact: In 1964 and producer, writer and director of movies made a movie titled, The Naked Witch which was set in Luckenbach, Texas, years before it became the famous town popularized by the song Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson sang in 1977. we know it as today.
We also know that Luckenbach was founded by German immigrants in 1846, that in 1897 the Luckenbach Frohsinn hosted more than a dozen choirs from as far as San Antonio, New Braunfels, Boerne, Comfort for the annual German Saengerfest, or festival of singers; that Luckenbach's population peaked in 1904, but by the 1960's it had become a varitable ghost town.
It was in 1964 that Larry Buchanan entered the picture and the tale of the Naked Witch of Luckenbach came to light. It seems a student was taveling to Luckenbach to gather material for a paper he’s writing pertaining to their preservation of medieval European superstition, hence the trip to the old German town, planning to attend the annual Saengerfest, or song festival.
Arriving in town, he mets a young girl who gives him a copy of a book containing the story of the Luckenbach Witch. He no longer finishes the book until he is off to exhume the body of the witch, where he discovers a body with a stake in it. Of course he pulls the stake from the body, then leaves, and is no sooner gone than the witch comes back to life.
With a title like The Naked Witch of Luckenbach you can guess something about her attire, though usually she is clothed, but when she wants something she is not afraid to use all her womanly charms. After the appropriate amount of murder and mayhem, the witch returns to the gave, where she inadvertly falls, once again impales herself on the wooden stake, there to remain until someone else learns of the book and frees her once again.
Now that you have read the facts and heard the story of the Naked Witch, was it a writers imagination, or actual events the writer experienced that he was relating? Maybe you should look for the grave of the Naked Witch and discover the truth for yourself.