They Tied Red Yarn to Stop the Children From Walking Back
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They Tied Red Yarn to Stop the Children From Walking Back
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A chill of controlled dread: for roughly forty years a faceless porcelain doll and a child's chair with flat stones under each leg appeared along George Berry Trail, and every May families still bring bundles of dried corn bound with red yarn to a lightning-struck oak. Why would six entrenched families keep a silent knot-tying ritual for generations without naming what it was meant to hold in place?
In this episode, we follow a retired librarian who spent eleven years tracing a local ceremony called the Knot and the erased ledger entries that point to an event the town refuses to name. What was the ritual protecting against, and why do the records stop listing causes after the fifth child?
Person: Bruce Erickson
Period: 11 years of research
Date: 1892-1893 (ledger entries)
Location: George Berry Trail / Settled Hollow / Meridian County
Event: Annual Knot ceremony on last Saturday of May
- A child's wooden chair was placed on George Berry Trail with flat stones packed under each leg for roughly forty years.
- Bruce Erickson retired in 2010 and completed a 200-copy monograph titled "The Knot Girls" in 2012.
- The Knot ceremony lasts about fifteen minutes and involves dried corn bundles bound with red yarn stacked at the base of a lightning-struck white oak.
- Miles Ferris's Methodist register lists eleven children dying in November 1892-1893, the first four with scarlet fever, the remaining seven with no cause recorded.
- Vernon Selle was 81 when interviewed by Erickson and his daughter Beverly had been placing the chair since her late twenties.
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