Chesuncook Witch Coven
The Chesuncook Witch Coven, or the Cult of the Skull, worships the Outer God Shub-Niggurath. They hold their ceremonies in the deep woods near the fictional location Chesuncook, Maine. Their rites supposedly include entering a subterranean cavern and descending six thousand steps to a pit filled with hungry shoggoths.
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Famous quotes containing the words chesuncook and/or witch:
“For my desert, I helped myself to a large slice of the Chesuncook woods, and took a hearty draught of its waters with all my senses.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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