Adelaide Thom

Adelaide Thom
“I am Moth, a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to a slum-house mystic and the man who broke her heart.” - Adelaide as Moth,The Virgin Cure

Adelaide was born as "Moth", named by her father after h3e3 had a vision of a pear tree giving him the name of which to call her. She has never liked it, and to run from her past, she changed her name. She has a very troubled past full of sex trade working as a young 13 year old after being sold by her mother. She eventually meets and starts a business with a fellow witch Eleanor St. Clair. They run a tea shop that is a ladylike front for their more subversive business providing tarot readings and herbal remedies for women whose needs (whether for sympathy or abortifacients) are ignored – or worse – by the patriarchal world they live in

The two “strong-minded women” who, we’re rather bluntly told, “refuse to conform to society’s expectations.”  Like those they help, Adelaide and Eleanor suffer from the small-mindedness and violence of that world. “I don’t know why I even agreed to rent to a pair of petticoats,” says their landlord as he contemplates their front window, shattered by a rock wrapped in a note saying ominously, “I know what you are.