Who hung up the stick men?

[teenacidal]

Since at the end of the movie we see them enter Rustin Parrs house which was burned down a long time before 1994 we know that there is are time shifts while they are in the woods. So wouldn't it be possible that someone in the past hung the sticke men? Maybe they were in the 1940's and Parr or Kyle Brody hung them. Or back way before that and Elly Kedward has hung them while she was still alive as part of a ritual. Do we know what they represent? Are they good, do they warn off evil or are they part of evil?

[Tweek]

That's possible.  The stickmen aren't explained in the film.  If the the time shift happened earlier in the film then it could have been Parr or Brody that made them, under Elly's influence.  Perhaps the next Blair film will shed some light on it?  My theory is that they are part of the spell that keeps the spirits of the dead children in the woods.  Until H takes one of the stickmen down there are only sounds at night.  After this the child ghosts attack the tent.  Physical contact.  As if removing one of the stickmen allowed them to do that. 

[teenacidal]

Thanks. I like your theory.

[twana]

or possibly taking one pissed off Elly ..

The stick figures represent Elly's childhood trauma and torment when
her father was being murdered and she was being attacked and then left for dead.

Heather snagging one of these sacred items would bring down the wrath of the witch.

[Tweek]

Or the cult that lived in the woods in the 60s might have put them up. They don't mention it in the film but they do in a deleted scene and I think it's in the dossier.

[mrtnflmngak]

Oh, I love the idea of the cult being involved. I only ever read about the cult in the Blair Witch 2 dossier.