John the Balladeer

Yeah.

People always ask, oh, is this inspired by John the Balladeer? And I'm like- Not really.

I love those stories, but this was more of me just trying to do,

like

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, for anybody who's not familiar, by the way, the John the Balladeer books, I think there are five of them that Manly Wade Lohman wrote.

Yeah.

Who Fears the Devil by Manly Wade Wellman.

It's kind of like a... series of stories following a character called John the Balladeer.

He's a you know, like a mountain man who kind of hobos his way around and gets into these kinds of supernatural situations.

It says like a series of short stories and a couple of books actually, but they're all collected in a volume called who fears the devil.

When the Fourchets ask

askTheir friend John the balladeer about his opinion on this that slowly leads into John bringing in friends who offer input into little cryptic clues on the Voth's property that realizes, oh, there's something...

There's a lot of druid symbolism on this property.

So some- they've got some sort of thing they're doing with Celtic druid worship here.

Basically there are three tiers, or yeah, I'll call them tiers, although I'm not gonna list them in the right order.

But you've got like the most primitive, chthonic, only semi-human creatures, whatever we wanna call them, and those are the old gods, the oldest gods, and they're the super dangerous ones if they, if they were to be harnessed and, and truly reawakened.

He's got the Englishmen coming over, and obviously they're white just the same as John the balladeer, our narrator, and the Forshays.

And they're coming over with their Druidism that's pretty awful.