BTW, about the five wives thing: forgot that in one variant of the Cunmar/St. Triphine legend, it's four wives, although there is at least one version where five women were killed before St. Triphine came along. The spirits of the wives in the secret room (who play a "magical helper" role in the story) help our heroine escape the castle by giving her four items- poison, a rope, a horse, and a staff. The four items relate to their deaths: the first wife was poisoned along with her son, the second was strangled with a rope, the third was dragged by a horse, and the fourth was beaten over the head with a staff (yikes!).