| 1 | ''The Green Knowe Chronicles'' by Lucy M. Boston is about a boy who ends up being sent to live at an old gothic manor. Strange things are afoot, however... |
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| 4 | * The titular children are ghosts that are trapped there. Although the children themselves are benevolent, there's a tree in the garden which the children called "Green Noah", inhabited by a demonic tree-spirit. The little poem about Green Noah is especially creepy: |
| 5 | -->Green Noah, demon tree, |
| 6 | -->Evil fingers can't catch me! |
| 7 | ** Oh, children's rhymes are nothing compared to the GypsyCurse that a mad witch originally used to summon the demon into the tree: |
| 8 | -->Scritchit, scratchit, shapen yew,\ |
| 9 | Devil's image, take on you,\ |
| 10 | Evil grow, evil be,\ |
| 11 | Green Noah, demon tree! |
| 12 | * In the fifth book, when Melanie sends a curse to Tolly's grandmother, carved on the skin of a child's hand. |
| 13 | ** The maggots and snakes also count as this. |
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