Do you think they'll start using Misty's mushrooms in the future for their rituals?
I don't know if this has been discussed here before. Probably so, but
I think they will use the hallucinogenic mushrooms more.
When they're under the influence, they feel the woods. Lottie sees and assumes herself as the antler queen. They all become wild and close to each other, like a pack. They scream like animals, chase and almost kill Travis.
So I think in order to push themselves to cannibalism and not feel too bad about it, they intuitively use mushrooms. That enhances their rituals. The pit girl scene is similar to the scene where they run after Travis.
One of the reasons why we see smiling Misty in the pit girl sequence, i think, is bc she finds her place in the community. They realize that the mushrooms helped them, especially Lottie. And mb they think that Misty was pushed to drug everyone by the woods.
But Misty probably keeps doing harm and being selfish, takes advantage of her position, so when they're adults everybody hates her even more. Also she might reveal that she destroyed the black box when she's high (???)
Also I've seen a lot of people here predicting that Jackie would not be buried, bc the ground is frozen. So they'd burn her. And I agree. They did tried to burn Van. And it will probably give them the idea to start cannibalizing as well.