McCullough

McCullough (fl. 1893 – 1992) was a human, practitioner of witchcraft and mother of Colin McCullough. She taught Bonnie about various forms of witchcraft.
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==Biography==
===19th century===
On 18 October, 1893, McCullough went to the bakery in town and was told a poem by a woman about her age, with instruction that it must be remembered for the future.McCullough Diary: Dear Diary, I met the stangest [sic] woman today while eating lunch in that little bakery in town. She seemed only a little older than me, but her eyes were so old! She came up to me and told me this poem, with a stern warning that it should be remembered for the future. (The Vampire Diaries (video game))
McCullough subsequently recorded the poem in her diary, and later in her spellbook, next to the Spell of Binding. She then hid the spellbook, believing that it was too powerful to fall into the wrong hands. On 23 October, the blue sky in the morning made McCullough realise that the "light of blue sky" referred to lapis lazuli.
===20th century===
McCullough went on to have a son named Colin, who married Ailsa MacLachlan, whose family also had druid ancestry. They had several daughters, named Sheena, Janet, Elspie, Mary and Bonnie.
McCullough taught Bonnie about magical methods of finding one's love, as well as a divining ritual, in which she favoured using melted lead as opposed to the melted silver her own grandmother had done. She also foretold that Bonnie would die an early death.
==Behind the scenes==
*In The Awakening and The Fury, it is not stated whether the "grandmother" Bonnie refers to is McCullough or MacLachlan. However, in After Hours it is said that MacLachlan died in early September, 1991, and she references the grandmother who foretold her early death as being alive, meaning that it must have been McCullough.
==Appearances==
*The Awakening 
*The Fury 
*The Vampire Diaries (video game) 
==Notes and references==
Category:Magic-users
Category:Humans
Category:McCullough family
Category:Females
Category:Fell's Church residents
Category:Unknown deaths
Category:19th century births
Category:Diarists