#Willabella Muckwab

[ender-of-the-sender]

I was thinking about how in The Summoning, the Lords say "Gamble it on the roll of a dice"

And then i started thinking that there are 6 Lords in Black if you count Webby, so you could make a 6 sided die, each side symbolising each of the Lords, and gamble away your soul or something

So I did. Personally, I think its really cool

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[lemonyoatmilk]

Praise the Spider Queen 🙏✨🕸️🕷️🕸️✨🙏

[aliceisaperson]

Ya know I kind of feel like we don’t talk about the fact that Willabella Muckwab canonically had a child, at least one. Like this woman who wrote a spell book in children’s blood was a mother. Idk I just think that’s really interesting, what kind of a relationship did she have with her daughter? What was her daughter like? What happened to her daughter after Willabella was executed? Am I the only one curious about this?

[ornitharts]

There’s a severe lack of Willabella Muckwab content on this website and I won’t stand for it, so here’s a quick drawing.

[automaticheartcrusade]

Starkid fans, I raise you the idea of an AU where Willabella Muckwab is the ancestor of the Chasity family instead of the Foster family. And the thought came to me with how passionate and invested Grace sounded when she spoke of the towns dark history, as well as the more obvious reason where she takes the black book in the end of NPMD and uses it. Like….the idea of witch Grace sounds cool to me.

[monstrousaffections1]

Hatchetfield theories. There is one slight detail I have noticed when it comes to the Lib's Witches, specifically a similar theme of Willabella and Grace. It's not a obvious detail bit one noticeable if you think about it. They are the Powerless given Power. Let me explain. Willabella was probably an unmarried, low class, poverty level woman in the 1820s. And if we really wanted to specify, she was probably a Washer Woman. Anyhow, in this period of time, a woman couldn't own property, they had a dowry and anything that was her inheritance, even a linen smock, would belong to her husband. Any legal right she had would be passed to her husband. Basically, the moment she would get married she would lose a lot of her own rights. In this, it was also an unmarried woman may be shunned by the community. Considered a Spinster, perhaps even denied any feasible employment. And Willabella is described as living in a hovel. Probably in the woods and likely isolated from the rest of the community. So she was likely a form of Outcast even before the LIB got involved with her. And now with Grace, yes she is from the modern world and thus has way more rights and stuff. But, she grew up in Purity Culture. Probably a Evangelical Church. She'd have been hearing since she was small, "Now every time you kiss a boy you become like a chewed piece of gum, and who's gonna want that?" and other such metaphors about how worthless she'd be if she doesn't wait for marriage. Not to mention the whole, not allowed to divorce even in abusive marriages. And the concept of consent meaning, not her's, but God's, and after marriage consent wouldn't matter anymore. (I know not all Christians and churches are like this, but I think we can all agree that Grace's church is a bit more of the extreme side of Purity Culture) Both Willabella and Grace come from cultures and environments that puts them at the mercy of the men of their communities, they are essentially either powerless, or thinking they are powerless. One is Indoctrinated, the other literally has no legal rights what so ever. Then the LIB show up and give them access to these magic powers, witchcraft and other such things. And the first thing that these two do, is, in their view. Start hurting the people who have hurt them. Willabella the entire community of Hatchetfield, and Grace, the dirty dudes.

[multi-fandomdisaster]

You know, I'm rereading the wiki fandom page for the Hatchetmen to brush up on my Hatchetfield history and it says that Willabella Muckwab apparently used the blood of the Hatchetmen's children to write the Black Book??? I mean, I remembered that the Black Book was written in blood, but YIKES-

I'd find her guilty of witchcraft and sentence her to death, too! Heck! I too would make it my sworn duty to rid the world of magic if I believed that very same magic had driven a woman to murder my children in order to write a demon book of all things! I'm with the Hatchetmen on this one!!! XD

[thearcanecat]

Hatchetfield headcanons?

Let’s see…

Holloway has lots of scars from living for centuries and hides them with the jacket. These include:

Lightning scars

Wiggly: sucker/tentacle marks

Pokey: cracks

Blinky: eye like circular pattern. Red vein squiggles at end.

Tinky: hoof print

Nibbly: bite marks

Her accent gets stronger when she’s mad. Same for Duke, but you rarely hear it.

Original name was Holly-May Logan.

The strange carving it’s mentioned she has in Killer Track, is a part of Pokey’s mask.

Ryan Reynolds is the person running against Solomon for mayor. He’s pushing the problematic pooch story because it shows how horrible the town has gotten under Solomon’s rule. You’d think the disappearance of his wife right before he got elected would be a bigger deal, but no, time for our daily Peanuts the Hatchetfield Pocket Squirrel segment!

The Obnoxious Teen is actually different versions of Pete after an encounter with the Bastard Box. He now lives in a never ending hell of minimum wage jobs.

Grace’s birthday is September 9th, buy a priest a beer day.

The Honey Queen sacrifice takes place on the summer solstice at midnight.

Description of the tree that grew from Willabella: Gnarled roots extend from a bulbous center. No leaves hang from its crown of branches. It is not natural. Nothing grows near it, except the apples that grow for its branches, never ripe and always rotten. A hollow in the center is swarming with spiders whose web spans across it. Several scars are evident from where the Hatchetmen, once they realized their mistake, tried to cut it down. From its branches hand charms of protection and containment that replace old ones of worship. It grows behind the old Waylon Hall, over the sight of Willabella’s execution. Like the Hall, many rumors swirl around it and foolish children often dare each other to touch the bark.

The Blade of Truth that MacNamara uses on the Sniggles is one of multiple PEIP has constructed. With help from Holloway, they were able to harness the White’s energy into physical form. Each Blade requires a secret to be whispered into it as it forms, one no one has ever heard before. If someone tells a lie while holding the Blade, it shatters.

The Foster family are descended from Willabella and a Hatchetman with the last name Forester. Willabella had no love for him and only got pregnant to delay her execution.

The Stockworth family vacations in Hatchetfield because they have connections with the Church of the Starry children. Lucy is not aware if this.

Charles Coven was part of PEIP and went by Carlo at the time.

PEIP has ID numbers based on the Stith Thompson’s Motif Index of Folk-Literature. Basically a collection of a bunch of different motifs in folklore.

Wilbur: D1310.10.1. Magic apple gives supernatural knowledge.

Holloway (Holliway this identity): G220.0.1. "Black" and "white" witches. Malevolent and benevolent.

John: B147.2.1.2. Eagle as omen of victory.

Xander: J1291.2. Theological questions answered by propounding simple questions in science.

Douglas Keane Sr. was an informant for PEIP. Basically, PEIP goes around to various people in professions where the supernatural may be encountered (law enforcement, medical, park rangers etc.) and gives them a little presentation with very vague language about if they seen anything unnatural, or out if the ordinary, to give their office a call. Since Hatchetfield is such a hotspot, Douglas knows a lot more about the supernatural than most informants do and is on first name basis with several PEIP agents. (This is heavily based off a book called The Rook by Daniel O’Malley.)

[owchie-wowchie]

Rewatched Witch in the web cause my body hurts and I wanted to have a little treat. In witch in the web (song) there's a lyric along the lines of "I could throw away the key now but that's not me" and it's got me thinking about the ending. Webby kills Willabella super easily but she hadn't before the events of the story. Why? She was able to for 200 years but she just didn't until Willabella tried to kill Hannah.

Webby killed Willabella because she tried to kill Hannah. Webby cares about Hannah so much she did something she'd never do, just because Willabella made Hannah cry. I just realized this today.

[jamie-is-out-of-ideas]

Unfortunately, I am not able to take Willabella seriously because the way she walks reminds me too much of Bazanka from Smosh.

[ender-of-the-sender]

I was thinking about how in The Summoning, the Lords say "Gamble it on the roll of a dice"

And then i started thinking that there are 6 Lords in Black if you count Webby, so you could make a 6 sided die, each side symbolising each of the Lords, and gamble away your soul or something

So i made a super rough mockup (that my cat totally didn't sit on what are you even talking about??)

Just a fun concept im playing around with

[aliceisaperson]

Idk I feel if you name your child Willabella Muckwab your kind of asking for that kid to be an evil witch worshiping a dark lord who writes her spell book with children’s blood. Like you kind of set them up there.

[wigglys-dikrats]

i have a theory i must share

willabella muckwab seduced one of the hatchetmen and had a daughter, and then down the line pamela foster was born and she had lex and hannah

lex and hannah are descended from the first disciple of the lords in black and someone who sought to destroy any trace of them

lex and hannah have both extremes in their dna

lex and hannah are the black and white

[thelandsthatare]

My Hatchetfield blorbo being Willabella Muckwab is probably a red flag tbh