White Witch of Rose Hall

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The White Witch of Rose Hall is a legendary ghost said to haunt the Rose Hall Great House in Montego Bay, Jamaica, often identified as the cruel plantation mistress Annie Palmer.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
White Witch of Rose Hall canonical 2
White Witch of Rosehall 1

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Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Jamaican folklore figure
haunted house legend
legendary ghost
associatedWith Rose Hall plantation
linked to: Rose Hall
associatedWithLocation Jamaica
Montego Bay
associatedWithRole plantation mistress
colorSymbolism white
connectedTo Rose Hall Great House night-time sightings
claims of paranormal activity
hasAlternativeName White Witch
White Witch of Rosehall
hasCulturalImpact haunted attraction marketing
local folklore traditions
hasLanguageContext English-language folklore
hasLegendStatus popular Jamaican legend
hasReputationFor cruelty
haunting
murder
sorcery
witchcraft
haunts Rose Hall Great House
linked to: Rose Hall
inspired books about Rose Hall
ghost tours at Rose Hall
involvesTheme colonialism
revenge
slavery
supernatural
violence
linkedTo tourism at Rose Hall Great House
narrativeElement ghost of a white woman
killing of enslaved people
killing of husbands
occult rituals
narrativeTimePeriod early 19th century
oftenIdentifiedAs Annie Palmer
partOf Caribbean folklore
Jamaican ghost stories
relatedMyth other Caribbean plantation ghost stories
sometimesDistinguishedFrom historical Annie Palmer
storyToldIn Jamaican folklore collections
guided tours of Rose Hall
tourist brochures about Montego Bay

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Rose Hall associatedWith White Witch of Rose Hall
White Witch of Rose Hall hasAlternativeName White Witch of Rosehall
linked to: White Witch of Rose Hall
Annie Palmer alsoKnownAs White Witch of Rose Hall