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Yes, Aladous Huxley wrote a book about the incident called The Devils of Loudun, though I confess I have yet to read it (my reading list has grown impossibly long).

I'm trusting that you, as a fellow resident of Humboldt County, noticed all the historical details in The Number of Darkness.

There was a real family named the Coopers who moved from Prince Edward Island and started a mill in Hydesville. Their fighting with the Wiyot tribe in 1860 sparked that last, incredibly violent segment of the Humboldt Indian wars and gave rise to the illegal militia the Humboldt Volunteers, which really did petition the Federal Government for troops but could not get them because the Civil War was starting.

Of course the blood thirsty psychopath Henry Larrabee, whom several creeks and towns in our county are named after was there for it all. []

And all of this begat that awful incident on Indian Island in Eureka where up to two hundred and fifty Wiyots, mostly women and children, were slaughtered in one night.

Some pretty fucked up shit. I took the easy way out and blamed it on demons. Lol.

I hope I'm not boring the shit out of you, I just love to talk about Northern California history, and who better to gab with then a denizen of old Mac Town. ;)