Board Thread:WARNING - SPOILERS AHEAD/@comment-11666836-20130707113336/@comment-99.237.140.158-20130713165840

On the topic of the tree in the intro, I was reading about the Druids recently and they supposedly had a ritual when they came across mistletoe trees. They'd pick the tree and sacrifice two bulls to a god of somesort and use the mistltoe as a cure for all poisons.

I know this isn't human sacrifice and probably doesn't have any signifigance to the story line, but the tree in the into looks very similar to a bare mistletoe tree in my opinion.

As a side note there also seems to be glowing fireflies hovering around theis tree in the intro, and as said in the ep. "Fireflies", the ones native to Beacon Hills are not biolumisecent, but the ones we see do glow. I read into this as well and non-glowing fireflies are often referred to as "dark fireflies". This reminded me of the "dark-oak"-darach and it is also the same ep. where the sacrifices start happening. I just find it a little too conincidentle that the "dark fireflies" disappear and the "dark oak" showes up