Sally Compton

Sally Compton, known late in her life as Grandma Compton, is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft who appears in "The Curse of Yig" and The Mound, both ghostwritten by Lovecraft for Zealia Bishop.
==Biography==
Sally Compton was one of the first pioneers to settle in Caddo County, Oklahoma, where she lives in the town of Binger with her son, Clyde. She is extremely knowledgeable about local folklore. (: The Mound)
Originally from Arkansas, Sally and her husband Joe Compton moved to Oklahoma and settled down in the area before Binger was founded. At the time, their son Clyde was still an infant.
Sally had a reputation as a teller of macabre tales, including one which was considered her "masterpiece", about a man in Scott County who had been bitten by so many rattlesnakes at once that his body swelled and burst open.
In 1889, the Comptons helped their new neighbors, Walker and Audrey Davis, build their own cabin, about two miles away from the Comptons' land. Sally and Audrey became close friends, and would often visit each other, sharing stories of Arkansas, where they both grew up, as well as rumours about the new country.
Although she was sympathetic about Walker Davis' paralysing fear of snakes, Sally was apparently oblivious to her friend Audrey's own fear of the snake god Yig: a fear cultivated after Audrey killed a nest of rattlesnakes to spare Walker of the trauma of seeing them. Local folklore told of the terrible vengeance that Yig reserved for those who harmed the serpents, and Walker became obsessed with the idea that he and Audrey were cursed. When Sally told Audrey the tale of the Scott County snake victim, Audrey begged her not to let Walker hear of it. Sally and Joe respected her wish and refrained from sharing this anecdote with Walker or others.
On October 31, 1889, the Comptons attended the Davises' Halloween party, and noticed how their hosts seemed to forget all their worries on the dancing floor. However, on the next day's afternoon, Sally came over to visit them and found the tragic result of the curse of Yig: an insane Audrey hissing like a snake, and the bloody remains of Walker, whom Audrey had axed to death after mistaking him for Yig at night.
Joe Compton died at some point prior to 1925. (: "The Curse of Yig")
In 1928, Sally and her son Clyde allowed a Virginian ethnologist to stay in their house and assisted him in his research about local folklore, particularly the legend of a ghost man and a headless ghost woman that haunted a particular mound. (: The Mound)
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