Unraveling the Mysteries of 'The Witch of Black Bird Pond

The Witch of Black Bird Pond is a historical novel written by Elizabeth George Speare. Set in Connecticut in the late 17th century, the story follows the life of a young girl named Kit Tyler. Kit, an orphan, is forced to leave her home in Barbados and travel to the Puritan colony of Connecticut to live with her aunt and uncle. Upon arriving in Connecticut, Kit finds herself in a society that is vastly different from what she is used to. The strict Puritan lifestyle is a stark contrast to the freedom and warmth she experienced in Barbados. Kit struggles to adapt to the rigid rules and expectations of the community, often finding herself at odds with the people around her.

Caelid looks pretty close, and Caelem Ruins is a location in the game.

FromSoftware have had reports of poor working conditions for years now and it appears that the staff decided to pour that frustration into Elden Ring by creating Caelid, job well done I say. I think it s probably from the Welsh Cae lid meaning inflamed field, which fits the character of the area a lot better than heaven , which it is anything but.

Kit struggles to adapt to the rigid rules and expectations of the community, often finding herself at odds with the people around her. One of the central conflicts in the novel revolves around Kit's friendship with an older woman named Hannah Tupper. Hannah is rumored to be a witch and is ostracized by the community.

Caelid | Elden Ring Wiki

Caelid is a Location and Region in Elden Ring. The Caelid region is located east of Limgrave. It's mainly defined by its red, corrupt environment and a great amount of undead roaming the open fields.

Caelid, known as the locale of the last battle between General Radahn and Malenia, Blade of Miquella, is a vast land consummately marred by scarlet rot.

Caelid Map & Map Fragments

• Map (Caelid): Found on a monolith along Caelid Highway in the south. [Map Link]
• Map (Dragonbarrow): Found on a monolith along the road in the north, directly east from the Dragonbarrow West Site of Grace. [Map Link]

Elden Ring Caelid Sites of Grace & Sub-Locations

Sites of Grace

Main Caelid

• Caelem Ruins [Map Link]
• Caelid Catacombs [Map Link]
• Caelid Highway South [Map Link]
• Cathedral of Dragon Communion [Map Link]
• Chair-Crypt of Sellia [Map Link]
• Chamber Outside the Plaza [Map Link]
• Church of the Plague [Map Link]
• Deep Siofra Well [Map Link]
• Fort Gael North [Map Link]
• Gael Tunnel [Map Link]
• Gaol Cave [Map Link]
• Impassable Greatbridge [Map Link]
• Minor Erdtree Catacombs [Map Link]
• Rear Gael Tunnel Entrance [Map Link]
• Redmane Castle Plaza [Map Link]
• Rotview Balcony [Map Link]
• Sellia Backstreets [Map Link]
• Sellia Crystal Tunnel [Map Link]
• Sellia Under-Stair [Map Link]
• Smoldering Church [Map Link]
• Smoldering Wall [Map Link]
• Southern Aeonia Swamp Bank [Map Link]
• Starscourge Radahn [Map Link]
• War-Dead Catacombs [Map Link]

Swamp of Aeonia

• Aeonia Swamp Shore [Map Link]
• Astray From Caelid Highway North [Map Link]
• Heart of Aeonia [Map Link]
• Inner Aeonia [Map Link]

Greyoll's Dragonbarrow

• Abandoned Cave [Map Link]
• Bestial Sanctum [Map Link]
• Divine Tower of Caelid: Basement [Map Link]
• Divine Tower of Caelid: Center [Map Link]
• Dragonbarrow Cave [Map Link]
• Dragonbarrow Fork [Map Link]
• Dragonbarrow West [Map Link]
• Farum Greatbridge [Map Link]
• Fort Faroth [Map Link]
• Isolated Merchant's Shack [Map Link]
• Lenne's Rise [Map Link]
• Sellia Hideaway [Map Link]

Sub-Locations

• Abandoned Cave
• Bestial Sanctum
• Caelem Ruins
• Caelid Catacombs
• Caelid Colosseum
• Caelid Waypoint Ruins
• Cathedral of Dragon Communion (Caelid)
• Church of the Plague
• Deep Siofra Well
• Divine Tower of Caelid
• Dragonbarrow Cave

• Forsaken Ruins
• Fort Faroth
• Fort Gael
• Gael Tunnel
• Gaol Cave
• Gowry's Shack
• Isolated Merchant's Shack (Dragonbarrow)
• Lenne's Rise
• Minor Erdtree (Caelid)
• Minor Erdtree (Dragonbarrow)
• Minor Erdtree Catacombs

• Redmane Castle
• Sellia Crystal Tunnel
• Sellia Evergaol
• Sellia Gateway
• Sellia Hideaway
• Sellia, Town of Sorcery
• Shack of the Rotting
• Smoldering Church
• Street of Sages Ruins
• Wailing Dunes
• War-Dead Catacombs

All NPCs and Merchants in Caelid

• Alexander - Found around Redmane Castle
• Blaidd - Found in Redmane Castle before the Festival
• Nomadic Merchant Caelid Highway North - Merchant of general goods. [Map Link]
• Nomadic Merchant Caelid South - Merchant of general goods. [Map Link]
• Gowry - Found inside his shack. [Map Link]
• Gurranq, Beast Clergyman - Found in the Bestial Sanctum [Map Link]
• Master Lusat - Found in Sellia Hideaway. Requires progressing Sellen's quest to reach. [Map Link]
• Millicent - Found in the Church of the Plague. [Map Link]
• The Great-Jar - Found at the coliseum in northwesternern Caelid. [Map Link]
• Witch-Hunter Jerren - Castle Crier. Speak to him to initiate the festival or continue the Sorceress Sellen questline

All Items in Elden Ring's Caelid Zone

Gather & Farm Items

• Aeonian Butterfly
• Arteria Leaf
• Beast Blood
• Cracked Crystal
• Crab Eggs
• Cracked Crystal
• Dragon Heart
• Dragonwound Grease
• Faded Erdleaf Flower
• Fire Grease
• Glass Shard
• Glintstone Firefly
• Glowstone
• Golden Rune [2]
• Golden Rune [3]
• Golden Rune [4]
• Golden Rune [5]
• Golden Rune [6]
• Golden Rune (12)
• Grave Violet
• Gravity Stone Fan
• Gravity Stone Chunk
• Great Dragonfly Head
• Large Glintstone Scrap
• Miquella's Lily
• Mushroom
• Numen's Rune
• Old Fang
• Perfume Bottle
• Poisonbloom
• Preserving Boluses
• Rainbow Stone
• Root Resin
• Rot Grease
• Rune Arc
• Ruin Fragment
• Sacramental Bud
• Smoldering Butterfly
• Silver Firefly
• Tarnished Golden Sunflower
• Toxic Mushroom
• Trina's Lily
• Turtle Neck Meat

Upgrade Materials

• Golden Seed
• Grave Glovewort (3)
• Grave Glovewort [4]
• Grave Glovewort (5)
• Sacred Tear
• Smithing Stone [4]
• Smithing Stone [5]
• Smithing Stone [6]
• Smithing Stone (7)
• Somber Smithing Stone (2)
• Somber Smithing Stone (4)
• Somber Smithing Stone (5)
• Somber Smithing Stone (6)

Equipment and Magic

• Arrow's Sting Talisman
• Cerulean Tear Scarab
• Cross-Naginata
• Dragon Heart
• Faithful's Canvas Talisman
• Flame, Grant Me Strength
• Flamberge
• Furlcalling Finger Remedy
• Gargoyle's Blackblade
• Gargoyle's Black Halberd
• Glintstone Stars
• Gold-Pickled Fowl Foot
• Golden Scarab
• Godskin Apostle Bracelets
• Godskin Apostle Hood
• Godskin Apostle Robe
• Godskin Apostle Trousers
• Godslayer's Greatsword
• Grace Mimic
• Greatbow
• Imp Head (Wolf)
• Katar
• Lusat's Glintstone Staff
• Meteoric Ore Blade
• Meteorite Staff
• Moonveil
• Night Comet
• Night Maiden's Mist
• Night Shard
• Nox Flowing Sword
• Perfumer Traveler's Set
• Poison Grease
• Radahn Soldier Greaves
• Regalia Of Eochaid
• Rock Blaster
• Rock Sling
• Ruins Greatsword
• Sacred Scorpion Charm
• Spelldrake Talisman +1
• Starscourge Heirloom
• Sword of St. Trina
• Partisan
• Pest Threads
• Pillory Shield
• Preserving Boluses
• Rock Blaster
• Rot Grease
• Rune Arc
• Serpent Bow
• Staff of Loss
• Venomous Fang
• Visage Shield
• Wakizashi

Unique, Ashes and Keys

• Armorer's Cookbook [4]
• Armorer's Cookbook [5]
• Ash of War: Cragblade
• Ash of War: Double Slash
• Ash of War: Flaming Strike
• Ash of War: Lion's Claw
• Ash of War: Sacred Ring of Light
• Ash of War: Poisonous Mist
• Battlemage Hugues Ashes
• Cracked Pot
• Dragon Heart
• Flame-Shrouding Cracked Tear
• Imbued Sword Key
• Kindred of Rot Ashes
• Greenburst Crystal Tear
• Mad Pumpkin Head Ashes
• Map (Caelid)
• Map (Dragonbarrow)
• Miranda Sprout Ashes
• Missionary's Cookbook (3)
• Nomadic Warrior's Cookbook (14)
• Perfume Bottle
• Polite Bow Gesture
• Putrid Corpse Ashes
• Radahn Soldier Ashes
• Redmane Knight Ogha Ashes
• Redmane Painting
• Rotten Stray Ashes
• Somberstone Miner's Bell Bearing (1)
• Sellia's Secret
• Stonesword Key
• Windy Crystal Tear

Elden Ring Caelid Creatures, Enemies and Bosses

Regular Creatures and Enemies

• Abnormal Stone Cluster
• Anastasia, Tarnished-Eater
• Avionette Soldier
• Blackflame Monk
• Cleanrot Knight
• Commoner
• Crab
• Flame Chariot
• Giant Bat
• Giant Dog
• Giant Dragonfly
• Giant Land Octopus
• Giant Miranda Sprout
• Giant Rat
• Glintstone Miner
• Glintstone Sorcerer
• Guardian
• Imp
• Land Octopus
• Land Squirt
• Lazuli Sorcerer
• Lion Guardian
• Marionette Soldier
• Miner
• Miranda Sprout
• Monstrous Crow
• Noble Sorcerer
• Lesser Kindred of Rot (Pests)
• Putrid Corpse
• Redmane Knight
• Radahn Soldier
• Raya Lucaria Knight
• Rotten Stray
• School of Graven Mages
• Servant of Rot
• Skeletal Slime
• Skeleton
• Soldier
• Twinsage Sorcerer
• Vulgar Militiamen

Field Bosses and Bosses

• Battlemage Hugues
• Bell Bearing Hunter
• Black Blade Kindred
• Cemetery Shade
• Commander O'Neil
• Cleanrot Knight
• Decaying Ekzykes
• Elder Dragon Greyoll
• Erdtree Avatar
• Erdtree Burial Watchdog
• Fallingstar Beast
• Flying Dragon Greyll
• Frenzied Duelist
• Giant Miranda Sprout
• Godskin Apostle
• Lion Guardian
• Lion Misbegotten Warrior & Crucible Knight
• Mad Pumpkin Head
• Mad Pumpkin Head Duo
• Magma Wyrm
• Miranda Sprout
• Night's Cavalry
• Nox Swordstress & Nox Priest
• Putrid Tree Spirit
• Skeleton
• Starscourge Radahn

Elden Ring Caelid Maps and Notes

The name "Caelid" may be derived the Welsh language, as "cae" translates to "field" and "lid" translates as "inflamed" (lit. "Inflamed Field"). If the name is derived from Welsh, one would expect the name to be pronounced as /'kai̯ˌlɪd/ ("KAI-lid", rhymes with "Eyelid"), though most every character in the game pronounces the name as /'kɛi̯ˌlɪd/ ("KAY-lid", The first syllable rhyming with, "play").

Am I the only who think that Caelid is the only place in the entire game which feel more comfortable whe it's raing or at night?

Who can forget such legendary tales as Der Vogel, Der Backpfeifengesicht and the most terrifying of all: Das Kinderschredder

For such a hellish place, there sure are a lot of graces everywhere. Pretty much if you go around the corner you will find another grace

Odd that it's so close to Caelum, which is roughly tranlated Latin for Heaven. (It is far from heavenly)

Anyone know the best way to kill the sleeping sorcerer giant halberd golem southeast of Rennes Rise (east of the Minor Erdtree which is south of Rennes Rise)

i can barely dent him with lvl 150 character. using an axe with all sorts of bonking bonus and antimagic incants still have me being nearly oneshot by his spells.

tonnes of health. huge alpha damage, and very hard to dodge spells that will easily oneshot you. also have to fight him on a tiny precipice.

not listed here

List of "Regular Creatures and Enemies" is missing a link for the Giant (Monstrous) Crow that is found all over the place in Caelid. The entry IS in the Wiki database, just not linked here.

FromSoftware have had reports of poor working conditions for years now and it appears that the staff decided to pour that frustration into Elden Ring by creating Caelid, job well done I say.

Ah, Caelid, welcome to Romania.

Joking aside, I love this place. The monsters here killed me so many times just by looking towards me that I am not even bothered by it happening again. I find Caelid fascinating, I hope the creators of this area are proud of themselves, I know I am proud of them.

After going through it thoroughly, I actually like this area. The entire zone seems like a combination of Nurgle's Garden and the Crimson from Terraria. It's like someone took the bubonic plague, gave it a splash of red and pink, and applied it on top of a (previously) beautiful, green meadow. Everything is so delightfully horrifying and the tone is so different from the rest of the game that it makes me genuinely like this place, after conquering it, of course. Also the lore is much more interesting and dramatic compared to most of the bland crap I've seen in other parts of the game.

the wiki says the name comes from Welsh, but I'm pretty sure if comes from Latin "Caelem" for paradise.

Caelid looks pretty close, and Caelem Ruins is a location in the game.

Considering it's near the greenish Liurnia, it makes sense the area that was here was pretty aswell.

death rite bird needs to be added to the boss list. it's directly east-southeast from the Southern Aeonia Swamp Bank site of grace, across the road.

Just want to agree 100% with the comment about the giant crows and dogs sucking. They really do. I try to kill one of those birds every now and again when I'm in caelid, and if you can stay near their legs and hit them with charged R2s, you will do a lot of damage and you will stagger them. The problem is actually managing to stick close to their legs in the first place. The attack with their beaks sort of sideways is fun as well, the tracking that attack has is a nightmare.

map is missing caelid catacombs (and other things like Sellia evergaol). due to this missed it in my original playthrough, found it casually in ng+ xd

How to be funny 101

Step 1: Go to the wiki page of Caelid
Step 2: Comment any U.S state
Step 3: Enjoy being Charlie Chaplin incarnated

All the scarlet rot areas are themed off of real places!

Caelid- Detroit
Dragonbarrow- Brazil
Haligtree- Ohio
Elphael- Chicago
Lake of Rot- Twitter

I'm still in my first playthrough and I really just can't bring myself to do anything here. It's more than a little off-putting and I have a hard time dealing with forest-fired areas for lack of trees with leaves. This is. worse.

So is north caelid supposed to accessed after snowfield? the vulgar militia near the beast clergyman's temple drop around 1700 runes while the ones on the way to the rold lift drop around 800

Some have purported Caelid's name is derived from the Latin "caelum", meaning heaven. I think it's probably from the Welsh "Cae lid" meaning inflamed field, which fits the character of the area a lot better than "heaven", which it is anything but.

Ah yes Caelifornia, the place that Malenia nuked so hard the only inhabitants left were all the maidenless

Tarnished: *enters Caelid*

“ bro, I’m straight up not having a good time here”

Missing Ash of War: Lifesteal Fist under. It's located just north of the Astray from Caelid Highway North SoG.

Church of the plague is spelled wrong as "church of the plauge" on this page, in the list of links, making the link not work.

Fun fact regarding all the things named Aeonian in the rot related areas. Definition of Aeonian: *lasting for an* immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time (relating to an object rather than just a length of time). Like the word Aeon/Eon, which just means a huge/indescribably long period of time. Idk how that could possibly play into anything but I thought it was neat. I wonder if there's any ties regarding rot and eternity or possibly entropy/breaking things down into their constituent parts and lasting forever/spreading constantly. Idk, I'm high af and it sounds interesting to me and I can't think of another reason they'd have called the things related to rot Aeonian.

Considering it's near the greenish Liurnia, it makes sense the area that was here was pretty aswell.

Despite this, Kit is drawn to Hannah and finds solace in her company. This friendship causes further tension between Kit and the people of the town, and she is eventually accused of being a witch herself. Throughout the novel, Speare explores themes of prejudice, tolerance, and the power of friendship. Kit's journey of self-discovery and her struggle to find acceptance in a new and unfamiliar society make The Witch of Black Bird Pond a captivating read. Overall, The Witch of Black Bird Pond is a compelling historical novel that sheds light on the challenges faced by those who dared to be different in a society dominated by fear and conformity. Speare's vivid descriptions and well-developed characters bring the world of colonial Connecticut to life, making it a must-read for fans of historical fiction..

Reviews for "Examining the Role of Religion in 'The Witch of Black Bird Pond"

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3. Sarah - 2 stars

I didn't enjoy "The Witch of Black Bird Pois" at all. The characters felt flat and one-dimensional, making it difficult to empathize with their struggles or care about their journeys. The dialogue was often awkward and stilted, lacking the natural flow that would have made it more engaging. The pacing was uneven, with long stretches of tediousness followed by moments of rushed action. Furthermore, the world-building felt underdeveloped and lacked the depth necessary to fully immerse the reader. Overall, I found this book to be underwhelming and would not recommend it to others.

Delving into the Themes of Prejudice and Discrimination in 'The Witch of Black Bird Pond