Episode 9 The Legend of Theresa Glinn

* Weeping Cedars shopping district and train on west of town all surrounded by dense forest
* Local Legends and Lore of Northern Hamilton County by Mary Fryer
	+ Theresa Glinn went from the Easter Rock to the House of Needles
	+ She waited there until the door opened, and a blue light came out
	+ an old crone with amber eyes called Theresa in to name her lover, who would be killed
* The archivists piles are very overlapping and messy
	+ strange things by the river
	+ things burning down
	+ strange coincidences
	+ events that took 30 or more lives
* News paper article from 1981
	+ a senior named Melissa Day got in trouble at school on Halloween for dressing up as Theresa Glinn
	+ after a confrontation with two other girls, she dropped some of her items, including a bunch of needles
* The events of the legend took place somewhere in the early 1800s
* all the named places, except for the Easter Rock, are still around
* all the names are real
* Theresa lived in Weeping Cedars at the beginning of the 1800s
	+ daughter of Elijah Glinn, a cooper, and Beatrice Inman
	+ born in 1809 or 1810 and baptized in 1811
		- the priest who signed certificate of baptism was Reverend Emmanuel Cartwright
* The Kunickis, Cartwrights, and Johannsens all made it through the smallpox epidemic mostly intact
	+ mentioned in ROE 30, likely because they complied with Daseth's demands that they build gates into Gradludi
* Naomi and James married in 1829
* St Gladius's church's graveyard set up so oldest graves are farthest from the church
	+ St Gladius is Episcopal
* The graves of Naomi and James are found in the churchyard
	+ even though records from the time indicate they married, Naomi's grave gives her maiden name
* Theresa seems to be lost to history
	+ not in any other records of the time or in the graveyard
	+ may have been put in Ikandaset Asylumn for Those Bereft of their Mental Abilities, a.k.a. The House, which would explain why she wasn't buried in the churches graveyard
* Lees understanding of the story
	+ Theresa ran off with someone from another town and a local boy was jilted
	+ the boy lies spreads rumors about her
	+ her story gets mixed with the story of James and Naomi
* Riley's way
	+ Theresa sought the help of someone and then James and Naomi just happen to die on the same day

## The Legend as Told in this Episode

* this is also copy pasted into this article
* James and Theresa were in love, but James's father forced James to not marry Theresa.
* that night the father goes into the basement of the church to make requests of dark powers
	+ the following morning, James was over Theresa
* James marries someone named Naomi Kunicki
* Theresa saw James coming out of the church after his wedding with Naomi
* that night Theresa goes into the woods for a ritual
	+ leaves a loaf of bread and a bottle of wine at The Witches Cave
	+ Takes a rabbit to the Easter Stone. She kills the rabbit on the stone and offers more wine
	+ a path appears to her to the House of Needles, where the Witch hears her request
* following this, James has nightmares of someone tapping on his window at night and looks in with golden eyes
* this repeats every night for a week
* at the end of this week, Naomi is trampled by a frightened horse
	+ James hangs himself that night
* Theresa returns to the cave to offer more wine and bread
* The father is a character of law and order
* the Witch is a character of chaos

## Weeping Cedars stores

* Waffle Shack
* ice cream store
* many places offering savory meals
* a jewelers
* 2 hobby stores
* doctors
* dentists
* hiking supply store
* general liquor store
* Wine tasting room, Dandy Lion Wines
* places to buy clothes
* used books, the Dog Ear
* toys
* fishing supplies, Bob's Bait and Tackle