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	'''Angeline Tubbs''', aka '''~~The~~ Witch of Saratoga''', was a semi-legendary figure who lived in the area of Saratoga Springs, New York in the 1700s and 1800s.		'''Angeline Tubbs''', aka the '''Witch of Saratoga''', was a semi-legendary figure who lived in the area of Saratoga Springs, New York in the 1700s and 1800s.

	Although she was a real person who lived an impoverished life in Saratoga Springs, most of the publicly-available information about her life and activities has been proven to be completely fabricated by her original biographer, William L. Stone, Jr.		Although she was a real person who lived an impoverished life in Saratoga Springs, most of the publicly-available information about her life and activities has been proven to be completely fabricated by her original biographer, William L. Stone, Jr.

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	'''Angeline Tubbs''', aka '''The Witch of Saratoga''', was a semi-legendary figure who lived in the area of Saratoga Springs, New York in the 1700s and 1800s.		'''Angeline Tubbs''', aka '''The Witch of Saratoga''', was a semi-legendary figure who lived in the area of Saratoga Springs, New York in the 1700s and 1800s.

			Although she was a real person who lived an impoverished life in Saratoga Springs, most of the publicly-available information about her life and activities has been proven to be completely fabricated by her original biographer, William L. Stone, Jr.

	==Biography==		==Biography==

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	Tubbs died in 1865 at the age of 104. Reportedly her ghost can still be seen haunting the woods and she is a popular subject for "ghost walks."		Tubbs died in 1865 at the age of 104. Reportedly her ghost can still be seen haunting the woods and she is a popular subject for "ghost walks."

	Her full biography and a detailed examination of contemporary sources concerning her life can be found in the book ''[[Magicians, Martyrs, and Madmen]]'' by [[Travis McHenry]].		Her full biography and a detailed examination of contemporary sources concerning her life can be found in the book ''[[Magicians, Martyrs, and Madmen]]'' by [[Travis McHenry]]. McHenry determined that the vast majority of folklore concerning Angeline Tubbs was completely fabricated by author William L. Stone, Jr. as part of a serialized story printed in a local Saratoga Springs newspaper.

			The well-known photograph of Tubbs at age 97 has been conclusively proven to be a dummy of Moll Pitcher from a commemorative postcard at Bunker Hill.

			==External links==
			* [https://www.bloodstone.info/post/angeline-tubbs-the-witch-of-saratoga Article on the historical veracity of Angeline Tubbs]

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	==Death and legacy==		==Death and legacy==
	Tubbs died in 1865 at the age of 104. Reportedly her ghost can still be seen haunting the woods and she is a popular subject for "ghost walks."		Tubbs died in 1865 at the age of 104. Reportedly her ghost can still be seen haunting the woods and she is a popular subject for "ghost walks."

			Her full biography and a detailed examination of contemporary sources concerning her life can be found in the book ''[[Magicians, Martyrs, and Madmen]]'' by [[Travis McHenry]].

	[[Category:People]]		[[Category:People]]
	[[Category:Witches]]		[[Category:Witches]]

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'''Angeline Tubbs''', aka '''The Witch of Saratoga''', was a semi-legendary figure who lived in the area of Saratoga Springs, New York in the 1700s and 1800s.

==Biography==
Tubbs was born in England around 1761, in the Star and Garter Inn in the village of Watford in Northamptonshire. She became engaged to a British officer from the 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot and at age fifteen followed him when he was sent to the colonies to fight in the Revolutionary War. After the British defeat in the Battles of Saratoga, he abandoned her.

With no place to go and knowing no one in a strange country, Tubbs supposedly walked fifteen miles through what was then uninhabited wilderness to the neighborhood of Saratoga Springs. There she settled at the base of a hill called Mount Vista, described as "a small mountain one mile north of the village", probably a promontory in the vicinity of Glen Mitchell.

==Reputation as a witch==
For many years Tubbs lived near Mount Vista in a hut surrounded by a brood of cats. She developed a reputation as a [[witch]] and made a living [[divination|telling fortunes]] and trapping. Author William Leete Stone provides the following description:
<blockquote>
Had she been mistress of the whirlwind, she could not have been more delighted with storms. She had been seen, her form erect and with extended arms, standing upon the verge of fearful precipices, in the midst of the most awful tempests, conversing, as it were, with unseen spirits, her long, matted hair streaming in the wind, while the thunder was riving the rocks beneath her feet, and the red lightning encircling her as with a winding-sheet of flame.
</blockquote>

==Death and legacy==
Tubbs died in 1865 at the age of 104. Reportedly her ghost can still be seen haunting the woods and she is a popular subject for "ghost walks."

[[Category:People]]
[[Category:Witches]]