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99% Vernacular: Volume 2

99% Invisible

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What Are These Tilted Windows?

These crooked windows are found almost entirely in vermont. They go by a few different names, but are probably most commonly referred to as whitch windows. Legend has it the windows were tilted on a diagonal in order to prevent witches from flying into the house on their broomsticks. The story goes that they enabled people to slide a coffin out of a second story window if some one happened to die upstairs.

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