Geillis Child

William Buccleigh “Buck” MacKenzie

While aboard the Glorianna, Roger encounters Morag MacKenzie and realizes she’s his four-times-great grandmother and her son his three-times-great grandfather. He protects them from the Captain: Stephen Bonnet.

While coming back from warning Murtagh about Governor Tryon’s intentions during the Battle of Alamance, Roger comes across Morag MacKenzie. He tries to warn her but is confronted by her husband (Roger’s 4x great grandfather) Buck MacKenzie who is also the son of Geillis Duncan and Dougal MacKenzie. Buck beats and ties up Roger, leaving him to be thought a Regulator.

Geillis is a time traveler. Could Buck be a time traveler too?

Source: The Ballad of Roger Mac, Down the Rabbit Hole
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Geillis Duncan

Geillis and Claire are arrested and charged with witchcraft. Claire realizes Geillis poisoned Arthur so she could be free to marry Dougal whose child she is carrying. Claire realizes the Jacobite cause is what brought the two together. Geillis says, “I only regret I have but one life to lose for my country,” which Claire recognizes as Nathan Hale’s famous last words from the American Revolution.

In the courtroom, the two are declared witches. Geillis tells Claire she thinks it is possible (meaning return to the future) and then 1-9-6-8. Geillis announces she’s a witch and Claire is innocent. She confesses to killing Arthur and then pulls down her dress to reveal a “mark of the devil” which Claire realizes is a vaccination scar and realizes Geillis is from 1968.

Geillis is also a time traveler!

Source: The Devil’s Mark
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Geillis Druid Ritual

Claire goes in search for Geillis and finds her in the woods doing a druid/pagan ritual. Claire notices the similarities to the dancers at the stones. Claire watches on as Geillis dances noticing Geillis is pregnant. When Geillis finish’s her ritual she calls for Claire to come out. Claire confronts Geillis about the pregnancy. Geillis tells Claire not even Arthur knows and when Claire asks how that is possible Geillis tells her Arthur hasn’t seen her out of her cloths. Geillis confesses that Dougal is her love and the child is his. Geillis tells Claire her ritual or summoning is to ask for Dougal and her freedom from their respective marriages.

What is the connection to the dancing similar to that of the stone dancers?

Source: By the Pricking of My Thumbs
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