Film / The VVitch

"Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?"

The Witch: A New-England Folktale (stylized as The VVitch) is a Religious Horror historical drama film written and directed by Robert Eggers in his feature directorial debut and starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Ineson. The movie originally debuted at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival (where it won the Best Director award in the Drama category), and was released to wide audiences on February 19, 2016 by A24.

The Witch is set in 1600s New England, where a Puritan family is banished from their village and must set out on their own into the wilderness. They set up a family farm on the edge of the woods, but encounter an evil lurking beyond the treeline.

Compare with A Ghost Story, another A24 film released the following year, which put a similarly introspective and minimalistic spin on a classic horror trope (ghosts instead of witches), and The Sudbury Devil, another film about witchcraft in the 17th century which tries to be as historically accurate as possible.

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The Witch provides examples of the following tropes:

• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: The witch that seduces Caleb takes the form of a voiceless dark-haired temptress.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: Thomasin becomes a witch at the end.
• Animal Motifs: Various animals foreshadow the witch's appearance before she actually shows up. There's a hare, a raven, and "Black Phillip" the goat, in particular. Hares and rabbits are sometimes associated with irrational fear, ravens are associated with prophecy and witchcraft, and the horned goat is associated with Satan himself. There are also stories of witches transforming themselves into rabbits or hares, and sneaking onto farms to suck milk out of various animals... like goats.
• Armor-Piercing Question: "Wouldst thou like to live... deliciously?"
• Asshole Victim: Katherine blames Thomasin for the misfortunes happening and tries to choke her to death only to be killed instead. Given her treatment of Thomasin throughout the film, it's hard to feel bad for her.
• The Bad Guy Wins: The Witch kills everyone except Thomasin, who then becomes a witch herself at Satan's behest.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: The family are Puritans who pray for worldly suffering as spiritual purification; they get more than they ever could have asked for, and are none the more righteous for it.
• Becoming the Boast: Early in the film, Thomasin brags to her siblings Jonas and Mercy about being a witch. Guess what she ends up becoming at the end?
• Black Speech: The coven's Enochian chant at the end.
• Blood from the Mouth: William spouts blood after getting his guts ripped open by Black Phillip's horns.
• Book Ends: It opens with a shot of Thomasin, and ends with one of her hovering in the air.
• Break the Haughty: William was banished by the commonwealth because he didn't see them as "true Christians" and took issue with how they worshiped. He seemed confident he and his family could brave the wilds on their own. He is very quickly proven wrong.
• Calling the Old Man Out: Thomasin lets William have it for being a hypocrite and letting her take the blame for several events, only admitting the truth after the damage was done.
• Can't Get Away with Nuthin': All of the family commits a sin, however little it seems; they pay dearly for those:
  • Samuel is part of the "original sin" his father William preaches about and dies unbaptized;
  • The twins may be in a covenant with Satan and provide false testimony about Thomasin;
  • Caleb briefly lusts over Thomasin and provides false testimony to his mother;
  • Thomasin blasphemes, provides false testimony when bullying Mercy, and being willful (by Puritan standards) does not honor her parents;
  • Kate succumbs to wrath, does not renege the false testimony given to her about Thomasin, nor she asks for forgiveness for the false accusations;
  • William leaves the Commonwealth due to pride, provides false testimony to Katherine and shifts the blame to Thomasin.
  • The family as a whole pays the price for their hubris of leaving a civilized "godly" settlement and trying to tame the devoid-of-God wilderness without the Lord's protection. They forsook divine protection, and paid an ungodly retribution for it. As time goes by and the situation worsens for them, their prayers become ever louder and filled with despair, and it becomes readily apparent that said prayers aren't going to be answered.
• Cast Speciation: When it comes to the twins, Mercy is the louder and more dominant one - with more focus and characterization than Jonas.
• Cradling Your Kill: Thomasin cradles her mother after having killed her in self-defense.
• Create Your Own Villain: The witches are the villains of the story but the rest of her family treats Thomasin so badly she eventually becomes a witch, if only just to survive.
• Creepy Child: The Caleb that appears to Katherine after his death, who seems emotionless and speaks in a distorted voice. It's a diabolical force pretending to be him.
• Creepy Children Singing: The twins' song about Black Phillip.
• Crisis of Faith: Unsurprisingly, due to their trying circumstances, just about everyone in the family struggles with belief. Caleb and Katherine are both deeply concerned that Samuel may have ended up in Hell due to being unbaptized.
• Dark Is Evil: Black Phillip has a very ominous vibe around him, what with being a black goat and all. Then it turns out he's literally Satan, and in his human form he's dressed entirely in black.
• Deal with the Devil: Thomasin eventually signs her name in the Devil's book, as all witches are said to do. The Devil (or the witch) also makes the offer to Katherine, disguised as her two dead children. The film could be taken as an exploration of the trope itself, asking what would legitimately cause a person to make one.
• Death of a Child: A memorable scene of a baby being about to be sliced up with a knife. Then Caleb dies. The fate of the twins is left open though.
• Decoy Protagonist: Throughout the first act, Caleb is given more focus than Thomasin, before the second and third switch largely to her point-of-view.
• Despair Event Horizon: Katherine, William and Thomasin all go through this at points in the film. Katherine gets hers right in the beginning when Samuel goes missing. William tries his best to resist, but eventually gives in when Caleb dies and he locks what's left of the children in the goat pen. And finally, Thomasin gets hit with this when everyone in her family dies (after her mother tried to murder her), which triggers her to accept the Devil's offer to become a Witch.
• Devil, but No God: Dark forces are (apparently) hard at work during the film, and even Satan himself shows up in the form of Black Phillip, but while Katherine's dream and Caleb's dying words could be seen as hinting towards the existence of a benevolent hereafter, God himself seems very inactive, which the devout characters find quite disheartening.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • Thomasin was most likely lashing out because she was still stinging from Mercy's taunt, but claiming to be the witch that made Sam disappear and then threatening to do the same to everyone else was a horribly unwise decision. While Thomasin had no way of predicting how that would come back to bite her, Mercy or Caleb could have told their parents what she'd said and gotten her into an enormous amount of trouble, especially given that both parents were highly religious and still raw from Sam's disappearance... which Katherine already partially blamed her for.
  • William for getting himself and his family banished from the Commonwealth and going into the wilds in the first place, to say nothing of his stubborn refusal to leave there as it clearly becomes a problem.
• Distressed Woodchopping: The family got banished from their village and set up a family farm on the edge of the woods. William (the father) has a habit of going to chop wood when he's frustrated to relieve stress. In her epic "The Reason You Suck" Speech, Thomasin caps off her father's failures by proclaiming that chopping wood is all he can manage.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Played with. In hindsight, the family doesn't do anything warranting their horrible fate (even the twins' covenant with Black Phillip, as it was made in childish ignorance rather than willful malice). However, by Puritan standards, they're sinners to the bone marrow.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Caleb's final scene is intended to resemble an ecstatic sexual experience (with an actual Puritan prayer chosen to give that suggestion), which neither the character nor actor should understand. The actor who played his father had to coach the performance through soccer metaphors.
• Don't Go in the Woods: The woods beyond the farm are extremely creepy, and you can only see one or two rows of trees before it turns to darkness.
• Double-Meaning Title: The title refers to the family's main antagonist, but also to Thomasin, who becomes a witch herself by the end.
• Downer Ending: Everyone dies except Thomasin, who joins the witches' coven. We never find out what happened to the twins, but it's probably not unrealistic to assume the worst. It goes even further as Katherine and Thomasin definitely signed their souls to the Devil, the twins are implied to have done so as well, and Katherine openly feared that Caleb and baby Samuel were damned. If Heaven exists, William is probably the only one who made it... and considering he was willing to die to redeem his children's souls when he believed them witches, odds are he won't find much peace even in Heaven, knowing his entire family is in Hell. The only upside is Thomasin seems happy in her new coven.
• Dwindling Party: Especially unsettling in this case, as the "party" is a family.
• Eats Babies: Or at least makes potions out of them.
• Establishing Character Moment: The opening scene, for William, where he expertly defends his actions from the hypocrisy of the Puritan council... and consequently gets his whole family banished from the community when he's too stubborn to swallow his pride and accept an offer of clemency from the council if he recants his actions.
• Evil Is Not Well-Lit:
  • The witch's true form is only ever seen in very dim lighting.
  • In the film's penultimate scene, Satan's human form is barely visible in the shadows behind Thomasin.
• Evil Laugh:
  • Briefly but memorably, when Thomasin and the twins see the Witch suckling blood from the goat's teats in the barn.
  • Briefly when Katherine sits in a chair hallucinating breastfeeding her child Samuel when in actually she's breastfeeding a crow pecking at her breast.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Satan has a deep but smooth voice at the end.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: In the penultimate scene, Satan speaks in a high-pitched whisper.
• Evil Tastes Good: Satan's offering to Thomasin is to try the taste of butter and live "deliciously".
• Familiar: The hare, the raven, and Black Phillip.
• Fan Disservice:
  • The witch appears nude in several scenes. Given that she's an extremely elderly woman, and she's covered in blood in most of those scenes, it's far from erotic.
  • When the witch does appear as an attractive young woman to seduce Caleb, the mood is ominous, the music is eerie, and though he follows her beckoning, he's so upset that he's on the verge of tears.
  • At the climax of the film, Thomasin strips naked and walks into the woods to join a witches' coven. While she herself is not unattractive, any sex appeal is undermined by the scene's twisted context, her questionable age^note Her actress Anna Taylor-Joy was twenty when the film was released, but is presumably playing Thomasin a few years younger, and the fact that she's still partly covered in her mother's blood.
• Flowery Elizabethan English: All the dialogue in the film is written in an approximation of Early Modern English, the form of the language that would have been spoken by English colonists in America in the early 17th century, though the accents and pronunciations used by all the actors are mostly modern. The archaic vocabulary has proven difficult for some viewers to understand without subtitles.
• Forced to Watch: One explanation for why Caleb was sent back to his family after being raped by the Witch. The family watches on in helpless terror as Caleb wastes away, suffering and babbling senselessly before dying right in front of them.
• Folk Horror: It's even called 'A New England Folk Tale' in the subtitle, and deals with fear and paranoia brought on by a witch or more apparently targeting the family.
• Forceful Kiss: The witch gives a slow one to Caleb when he comes across her domain and she appears as a beautiful young woman.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Thomasin, in a prank to play on Mercy, brags about being a nefarious Witch and frightens her, eventually causing suspicion in the family after Caleb dies. Guess who becomes an actual Witch at the end?
  • Thomasin's prayer at the beginning of the film basically lays the groundwork for her turn to evil at the end.
  Thomasin: I here confess I have lived in sin. I have been idle of my work, disobedient of mine parents, neglectful of my prayer. I have, in secret, played upon thy sabbath, and broken every one of thy commandments in thought.
  • At one point in the film, there is a close-up of Black Phillip's face, including one eye. Goat pupils are typically rectangular◊; Black Phillip's are round, indicating that he is not really a goat.
  • When Katherine awakes in the middle of the night, her silver cup is in shot, foreshadowing that either lost things are returning, or that she's seeing things that are not there.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: Several characters see the titular witch in different guises, hinting at their personalities. Caleb sees her as a curvaceous young woman in revealing clothing, Katherine sees her as her two dead children, and Thomasin sees a Tall, Dark, and Handsome stranger who may either be the witch or her master Satan. Her true form is apparently that of an elderly grey-haired woman who never wears clothes. And that's without getting into the fact that there's more than one witch.
• From Bad to Worse: The entire movie, to the point where Thomasin accepting the Devil's bargain at the end is not just her prerogative, but her only way to survive.
• The Fundamentalist: William and Katherine. They are extremely religious, as you'd expect of a Puritan couple in the 17th century - constantly praying, quoting Bible verses, and interpreting everything that happens to them through their religious belief system. William's strong religious beliefs even got them banished from the Commonwealth. However, for most of the film, their chief concern is keeping their children fed and clothed. After Caleb's death, though...
• Gory Discretion Shot: We cut away just as the witch presses a blade against baby Samuel. We next see the same spot drenched in blood with no sign of the baby.
• Hair-Raising Hare: The hare familiar, which causes William's gun to backfire, spooks the goats, and creates trouble for Thomasin and Caleb in the woods, leading to Caleb's death.
• Hell Is That Noise: The film makes use of a chilling score, constantly ebbing and flowing with intense violins that sound nearly unearthly.
• Hot Witch: The witch takes the form of an attractive, well-endowed woman to seduce Caleb. If more than one is targeting the family, this may have been one of those shown in the end (dark-haired girls are seen there) so it may have been her real appearance.
• Hypocrite: Thomasin epically calls William on being one. He demands that she speak only truth to him about being a witch, and refuses to believe her when she denies it. She fires back that he has lied repeatedly to the family - letting her and Caleb take the blame for his actions - so it's incredibly rich of him to doubt her honesty.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: William is mortally wounded when he's impaled by Black Phillip's horns.
• Incest Subtext:
  • Caleb is unfortunately entering maturity and seems to be mildly lusting after Thomasin, whom he covertly subjects to his Male Gaze. Weirdly, Katherine later accuses Thomasin of throwing "slutty glances" at Caleb and William when Thomasin was never shown doing this, though admittedly Katherine is in the throes of some severe Sanity Slippage at the time.
  • There's also a moment where Thomasin is ordered to clean her father's shirt, so she has to take it off him herself, which she looks uncomfortable with doing.
• Inciting Incident: The movie may not have happened had William swallowed his pride and prevented his expulsion from the Commonwealth.
• Jealous Parent: Katherine accuses her daughter Thomasin of seducing her father William and her brother Caleb, believing her responsible for the family's misfortune and tries to kill her for it.
• The Joy of First Flight: A rather unsettling example. The last scene shows Thomasin stoked as she starts to levitate like the other witches.
• Jump Scare: When Black Phillip comes out of left field to attack William.
• Lady in Red: It's no coincidence that the witch who seduces Caleb and is implied to have raped him appears wearing a red cloak. It's the only time in the film we see someone wearing red (as bright colors and finery were forbidden in Puritan society).
• Letting Her Hair Down:
  • A gradual example with Thomasin. As noted in Renegade Cut's video on the film, the hair is supposed to represent how repressed she is in her Puritan lifestyle, and she finally lets it all hang out as she becomes a Witch at the end.
  • Katherine likewise is shown with her hair completely down after she has gone mad and tries to kill Thomasin.
• Light Is Not Good: The witch that seduces Caleb wears the brightest colored clothes in the movie.
• Lucky Number Seven: There are seven members of the family in total: William, Katherine, Thomasin, Caleb, Jonas, Mercy, and baby Samuel (though Samuel isn't around for long). Considering the movie revolves around witchcraft—where seven is seen as an inherently magical number—this likely isn't a coincidence.
• Male Gaze: Played for Drama. Caleb's gaze lingers on Thomasin's cleavage a few times, indicating that he's struggling with his own sexual desires as he comes of age.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Left deliberately vague. All supernatural scenes are only witnessed by one person at a time, and could as well be hallucinations or fantasies.
• Meaningful Name: Thomasin. Combining "Thomas" the doubting apostle, with "sin". Also: Black Phillip - Baphomet.
• Mind Screw: The film is very surreal and nightmarish. Word of God states that they intended to make it ambiguous as to what is really going on, whether due to the supernatural or mania.
• Minimalist Cast: The six core members of the family (William, Katherine, Thomasin, Caleb, Jonas, Mercy) are the only characters with any significant amount of dialogue or screentime. Other than them, there's just the town council in the opening scene, the titular witch herself, Satan's human form, and the witches' coven at the end, all of whom appear only fleetingly.
• Morality Pet: For all William's flaws, he clearly loves his eldest son Caleb, and wants to raise him as an upright Christian man. Caleb's death signals his descent into paranoia.
• Mundane Luxury: The enticements for signing the Devil's book include getting a new dress and butter. That this is what "living deliciously" apparently means speaks to how deprived the family's lifestyle is.
• Naked Nutter:
  • The eponymous villain is almost always naked and - judging by the demented laughter, frenzied chanting and animal cruelty - is barely sane. Plus, she's also extremely elderly.
  • After being accidentally stranded in the forest, Caleb finds himself face to face with the Witch herself. He later turns up back at the family farm, delirious, incoherent and stark naked. It's not specified what the Witch did to Caleb, though the implications aren't nice; whatever happened, it eventually ends up killing him.
  • At the very end of the film, Thomasin plunges over the Despair Event Horizon after the rest of her family is killed, leaving her stranded alone at the farm with no means of providing for herself and no help for miles. Calling out to Black Phillip, she accepts a literal Deal with the Devil and - at his prompting - strips nude and wanders out into the forest to join the other witches. As she rises naked into the night with the rest of the coven, the look on her face indicates that she's finally crossed the line into madness.
• New England Puritan: The main protagonists are a family who got expelled from their colonial-era town because the father's religious views were too extreme even for their Puritan community, forcing them out into a remote homestead. Once the Witch starts targeting them, his rigid faith winds up merely digging him and his family in a deeper hole.
• Nothing Is Scarier:
  • The witch spends most of the movie hiding in the forest. When she does appear, she's often hidden in shadow. If she was ever really there at all.
  • We see very little of Satan's human form - a single boot and the lower half of a face obscured in shadows, but that's all that's needed to get the point across to the audience very effectively.
• Nude Nature Dance: In the final scene, Thomasin joins a coven of naked witches performing a ritual around a campfire in the woods.
• Obviously Evil: You have to wonder why such a devoutly Puritan family would keep a black goat of all things around. Especially once the children start claiming it speaks.
• Offing the Offspring: Katherine attempts to do this to Thomasin, blaming her for all the wrongdoings happening in the family. This causes Thomasin to fight back and kill her mother in self-defense.
• Oop North: Although set in New England, the family is from here originally and speaks with Northern English accents.
• The Ophelia: Katherine becomes this completely by the third act. After going mad and hallucinating that Caleb and Samuel have come back to her, she only appears in her nightgown with her hair loose - trying to murder her only surviving daughter.
• Percussive Therapy: The father has a habit of going to chop wood when frustrated.
• Please Wake Up: Katherine's reaction after Caleb dies.
• Powered by a Forsaken Child: Apparently, the blood of newborns is required to power broomsticks.
• Precision F-Strike: As with the rest of the dialogue, the film's profanity is in archaic English. This makes William's very modern "Bitch!", directed at Thomasin, come across as this.
• Pride Before a Fall: William and his family are banished from the commonwealth for his pride. Not very long after, baby Samuel is abducted and killed by a witch, and things only get worse from there.
• Properly Paranoid: The story starts out as a depiction of a fundamentalist family living in some schizophrenic fantasy world entirely of their father's invention. But then, as the plot progresses, it becomes clear that witches and curses are indeed real and the devil does exist. Maybe.
• Rape as Drama: Caleb returns from the forest nude and maddened, and is implied to have been sexually attacked by the witch. Given what we can see of the actual witch, it comes to no wonder.
• Redemption Equals Death:
  • Caleb is cured of witchcraft by his family's prayer, and passionately proclaims his love for Christ, but dies shortly after, seemingly from shock. Although as per the Mind Screw nature of the film, Caleb's final exclamation could also be interpreted as the Witch/the Devil using scripture to trick the family, as pointed out by Katherine.
  • William accepts his prideful nature and begs God for forgiveness and especially for the redemption of his children. The morning after, he is mortally wounded by Black Phillip. He contemplates killing the goat with his axe, but drops it and resigns himself to fate, quoting from the Book of Job before dying.
• Religious Horror: A Puritan family, a witch, and Satan himself.
• Riches to Rags: The family has gone from having glass windows back in England, which would have marked them out as quite wealthy for the time, to living in an earth-floored hut outside of the plantation, out of William's prideful wish to worship his way.
• Rule of Symbolism:
  • The family literally settles at the fringes of the territory protected by God, tempting the clear limit of the God-forsaken wilderness of the woods. Settling there is bad enough, but venturing into said woods is precisely what starts breaking everything apart for them.
  • Black Phillip's human form resembles a Cavalier, and royalist Cavaliers were enemies of the parliamentarian Roundheads, whom most Puritans supported. It's no coincidence that he's the walking embodiment of everything Thomasin's faith opposes.
  • When Thomasin is ritually reborn as a witch she is, quite fittingly, naked and covered in her mother's blood.
• Salem Is Witch Country: The film takes place in Puritan New England.
• Secondary Character Title: The titular witch only has a few minutes of screentime. She isn't even the primary antagonist, that would be Satan disguised as Black Phillip. Unless the title is referring to Thomasin.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Thomasin's family turns against her and accuses her of being a witch. Guess who ends up becoming a witch at the end of the film?
• Sex Is Evil: Par for the course for a 17th-century Puritan family. Caleb clearly has a lot of angst about hitting puberty, and he frequently finds himself sneaking peeks at his sister's cleavage. Appropriately, the witch appears to him as an alluring woman who seduces him. Likewise, Thomasin sees the devil as a handsome dark-haired man who invites her to "live deliciously", and the last scene of the movie shows her stripping off her clothes and going to join a nude witches' dance in the forest, which can be seen as a dark portrait of female sexual awakening.
• Shirtless Scene: William while chopping some wood, and Thomasin has to wash his shirt in the river.
• Shown Their Work: Robert Eggers thoroughly researched the period's dialects, clothing, architecture and farming. The film is also accurate to the classical lore of witches.
• Single-Minded Twins: Jonas and Mercy are absolutely inseparable. They have the same mischievous personality, and they can always sing in perfect harmony.
• Sinister Nudity: The witch coven encountered at the very end of the film are all naked and chanting in Black Speech, their nudity made to seem indistinct and disturbing by the poor lighting.
• Situational Sexuality: Because the family is away from civilization and there's nobody else around close in age, Caleb seems to develop incestuous sexual lust towards his own sister Thomasin which he struggles with.
• Slut-Shaming: Katherine to Thomasin in their final confrontation. While she does scream about Thomasin being responsible for the deaths, most of her tirade is accusing Thomasin of being a "proud slut" and implies she was trying to seduce her own brother and father. Note that Thomasin never showed the slightest inclination towards this and if anything Caleb seemed to lust for Thomasin, which Katherine might be blaming Thomasin for. Considering how witches were believed to have sex with Satan, Katherine might be projecting false memories of sexually deviant behavior onto her daughter.
• Sold His Soul for a Donut: Played for Drama. When Thomasin asks Black Phillip what he can give her, he offers "the taste of butter" and "a pretty dress". Between her repressed, puritan upbringing and the desperate situation she's in, it's enough to get her to to sign his book.
• Spoiler Cover: This poster◊ inadvertently spoils the ending, but without context it can seem like it's the witch herself instead of Thomasin at the end.
• Stark Naked Sorcery: After the witch kills the baby Samuel, she makes a "flying ointment" using his blood (and possibly other parts), smears it across her body and broomstick, and then flies into the sky.
  • At the end of the film, Thomasin comes upon a coven of witches who are chanting and gyrating around a fire while naked. They eventually rise into the air, and Thomasin, who disrobed before going into the woods, rises into the air with them.
• Through the Eyes of Madness:
  • One interpretation of the film is that Thomasin is insane, and all of the encounters with the witch are actually encounters with her while she's hallucinating. In particular, note that the witch isn't seen or heard again after Katherine's death, possibly implying that Thomasin was the witch all along.
  • Another is that everyone is suffering ergot poisoning with the attending psychosis it brings; notice the big deal made of rot on the corn?
• Trailers Always Spoil: A variant; clips in the DVD's menu show Thomasin disrobing in an overly dramatic way, which plays a great deal into the ending.
• Trauma Conga Line: Whether there's a witch or not, this family goes through every horror imaginable, and due to their isolation, there's no one coming to help them. Thomasin is the only one to make it out alive, and by then, she's so broken that she makes a Deal with the Devil.
• Uncertain Doom: The twins. We never actually see them die, and Thomasin was right about Black Phillip being Satan; it's not hard to imagine that Thomasin was right about them as well. On the other hand, they're not seen with the other witches at the end. Furthermore when the witch is in the stable, a disgusting "choking noise" stifles their screams. What exactly she did is unknown, but the twins' survival is unlikely.
• Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Right after the ending and before the credits, a piece of text◊ comes up saying that the film was not only inspired by fairytales and folklore on that period but also eyewitness accounts and journal entries written on witchcraft.
• Wham Line: Satan saying: "What dost thou want?"
• Wham Shot: At the end of the movie, the shot of witches dancing nude around a campfire in the forest, showing that the woods house an entire coven of witches.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: After Thomasin falls off of the horse, the horse is never seen again.
• Witch Hunt: A misguided witch hunt within a family.

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