Jess-Belle

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The Twilight Zone Original series
Season four (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5)
January 1963 – June 1963
List of The Twilight Zone episodes

Episodes:

  1. In His Image
  2. The Thirty-Fathom Grave
  3. Valley of the Shadow
  4. He's Alive
  5. Mute
  6. Death Ship
  7. Jess-Belle
  8. Miniature
  9. Printer's Devil
  10. No Time Like the Past
  11. The Parallel
  12. I Dream of Genie
  13. The New Exhibit
  14. Of Late I Think of Cliffordville
  15. The Incredible World of Horace Ford
  16. On Thursday We Leave for Home
  17. Passage on the Lady Anne
  18. The Bard

“Jess-Belle” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

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Jess-Belle, determined that Billy-Ben Turner and Ellwyn Glover not marry, enlists the aid of a local witch who casts a spell that makes Billy-Ben forget Ellwyn and fall madly in love with Jess-Belle. Jess-Belle learns there's a price for the spell when she transforms into a leopard from midnight until dawn. A hunting party finds the leopard and shoots it, and it disappears in a cloud of smoke. A year later when Billy-Ben is preparing to marry Ellwyn, Jess-Belle reappears. Billy-Ben learns from the local witch that to kill Jess-Belle he must stab one of her dresses with silver. He returns home to find Ellwyn possessed by Jess-Belle. He grabs one of her dresses and stabs it. Jess-Belle appears in the dress, and then disappears forever.

No closing narration. It ends with a folk song heard at the beginning of the episode:

'Fair was Elly Glover,
Dark was Jess-Belle.
Both they loved the same man,
And both they loved him well.'

[edit] The Song

Each 'act' of the episode begins with a verse of a haunting folk song. The lyrics are as follows:

Fair was Elly Glover, dark was Jess-Belle. Both they loved the same man, and both they loved him well.

By day she knew a woman's form, by night a witch's spell. For love of Billy Turner, accursed was Jess-Belle.

A fitful night was spent by all on Eagle's Rock did dwell. Strange things were seen by moonlight's fall, but none saw Jess-Belle.

Warm was Elly Glover, cold dead was Jess-Belle. And husband would be Billy Ben, of the one he loved so well.

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This is the only episode to not end with closing narration.

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