Over the Garden Wall – Pottsfield

elsarine:

Alright so I’ve made a theory about Over the Garden Wall. When Wirt and Greg travel with Beatrice to Pottsfield I felt like I had heard the name before that’s when I realized something.

In history people who where highly in debt or where poor and couldn’t afford to buried in a cemetery they where buried in unmarked graves called Potters Fields (at most you where given a number on a small stone like this)

… So when Wirt and Greg are digging and finding these skeletons the reason they are not marked graves is because it’s a potter’s field hence the name of the town.

This is just something I thought of when watching the series and I must say it’s a wonderful series and has tons of historical references for history nerds like me