It burned out of control until nothing was left but a smoking cellar hole.FREDERICKSBURG, VA- With three weeks left until show, STEPVA’s rehearsals for its upcoming Disney’s The Lion King, Kids! show continue apace, with the cast ramping up their work to master song lyrics, lines and dances. They buried her, but as they left they reached Hannah’s home and it was in flames. By the time they came to the cemetery, the sun had gone down. The sled had barely began to move when her coffin began to shudder and shake so violently the men were thrown off.Īt this time the people decided to carry out her instructions, and carried in by foot despite impassible snow.

They then secured her on the sled again with heavy chains, and a few brave men sat on top of her coffin. As the sled pulled away from the house towards the cemetery, the straps somehow became loose, and the casket fell off the rear of the sled. The people decided to strap her onto a sturdy house drawn sled. The neighbors were inclined to carry out her instructions, but a heavy snow storm had begun the day she died, and by the time it ended the snow was to deep to permit a hand-carrying funeral. She said, “The coffin must be carried by hand to the graveyard,” she insisted, “and I must not be buried before sundown.” She was found dead the next day. Hannah informed one of her neighbors that January that she soon was going to die and she gave the man explicit instructions about her own burial. She buried him by starlight in the exact center of her garden, holding a strange funeral service. After her rooster died, she didn’t die much later. Hannah also had a strange obsession about her huge pet Shanghai rooster named “Old Boreas.” Neighbors claimed that he crowed exactly at midnight, to the point that they could set their watches to it.

“You got it, before daybreak.” Promptly at midnight, the first rain in weeks began to fall.

The farmer so desperate laid his soul at her feet in exchange for her intercession to the rain god. She would refuse to cast spells, unless the individual had complete faith in her and her powers.Ī farmer came to her for her help during this season of horrible drought, in attempt to save his dying crops. She decided to flaunt her new found gift, to the point where people started to seek out her for favors.

Hannah the brave cast