another word of the day, sent to me—eldritch. it's meaning goes back to the old english: of a strange country, pertaining to the Otherworld, in a foreign land, exiled. the elder tree is the symbol of judgement, transformation, death and regeneration, fate, the inevitable, the uncanny. one of the elder's deities is hilde. here's hilde:

she's an elder girl. sweet and wise and magical. she truly wards off evil.