Episode 17 The Book of the Witch

* Yellow Eyes
	+ also known as The Crone or The Witch
* The Witch tends to appear in dreams, at the edge of the forest, or at the Witches Tree
* Heinrich Kregor's poem from his book "Gelbe Augen" in 1825 about The Witch
	+ Hie thee thither and take-up thine spear A’for whithered wanton wolf-slain appear Gleamed and glowing and gelid and gaunt The ash, the gallows, the gloaming she haunt
	+ Gelber Augen means Yellow Eyes
	+ The ash tree is the witches tree
	+ the tree was originally a place used for hanging
	+ the wolf slain might be a reference to one of the supernatural beings, as wolves seem to be associated with one of them
* A man from Maine came to Weeping Cedars to visit an address his dying mother gave him
	+ he wandered down Toyoma street on a midnight stroll
	+ a lady who seemed to be an Ikandaset Asylum patient that managed to get out was standing by a tree
	+ He went to her and she gave him a metal object that looked like an arrowhead, and said "for you"
* Another woman, in 1846 said she talked to the Crone and had been 'sifted by the song of the lady of golden tears.'
	+ is the lady mentioned The Queen In Samite
* Much of this info comes from Under the Shaded Cedars and Weeping Cedars From 1742 to the Present
	+ The "present" being 1923
* in 1811, Thomas Duncan Flowers came to Weeping Cedars to set up a printing business at request of Travis Clore
* in 1829, Thomas told his wife Cora Duncan Flowers of an encounter
	+ one day in 1817, a lady named Eulalie Farnsworth came into the printing shop and gave Thomas a manuscript, paying to print 13 copies
* the Duncan Flowers journal is in the Historical Society
* on may 13, 1817, Cora wrote about the encounter
* Eulalie may have given her name wrong, as in the Historical Society's copy of her book, its Eulalie Farris
* On the Matter of the Summoning of the Wytch of the Ikandaset
	+ 40 pages long
	+ 23 pages have text
		- Curses, mostly against men
		- instructions for contacting the Witch
			* bring 2 flagons of mead, a loaf of bread, and an animal that can be spitted
				+ in this episode its mead, in the Theresa Glinn episode its wine
			* go to the "hole in the earth which the Lord has smitten nye the turn of the river"
			* put one flagon and the loaf on some dry ground
			* supplicate to the "child of the mountains, cursed of the old world, which was flung upon this land by warlike men of days long past."
			* Grovel before the Crone
			* lay down for the length of "one watch" then get up and clean yourself in the river
			* go to the etched stone and make your sacrifice and supplication
	+ 6 pages have woodcuts
	+ 10 pages are blank
	+ 1 page just has the word "Wolwah"
		- in Emily Trouvier's public reading this was interpreted as Vulva by the public
* The three possibilities of how the Theresa Glinn legend and the book are so similar in their instructions
	+ one directly influenced the other
	+ one indirectly influenced the other
	+ they have a common source
* in 1908, Anna Glodsdroff collected and burned 10 of the copies of the book
	+ the burning was in front of St Gladius and was overseen by Father Galvin Cooper
	+ one copy was protected by then librarian Jenna Trouvier who passed it to her daughter Emily upon her death
	+ the other two copies were given to the Historical Society in 1972 by an unknown benefactor
* The Historical Society's copy has two pieces of paper in the back
	+ a list with three columns
		- a name, the one killed
		- a date, the year of the death
		- 3 letters, initials of the one who did the cursing
	+ examples given
		- Horace Cartwright, 1841, LC
		- Micheal Daughton, 1921, FLG
		- Thomas Trembley, 1844, YT
		- James and Naomi Kunicki, 1829, TG
			* TG is Theresa Glinn
		- Maurice and Glenda Feierbaum, 1892
		- Bruce and Sylvia Moyers, 1961
		- Jacob Bryant-Gladwell, 2019, FM
			* this was written in red pen, and the Archivists believe this was written after they initially found the list
			* FM is likely Francis Mayers
				+ Whats Mayers motivation?