Oct 3, 2021
We decided to podcast deliciously this week and talk about the modern American folktale, THE VVITCH. Immediately Raquel & Raphael refuse to agree on the crimes committed. Yet beginning a film at the end of a trial seems to do it well. Is the family punished by the sins of the father? Or does each individual member have their own to atone for? Is the audience being punished by the period accurate vernacular? Raquel has an interesting theory that mother Katherine is actually jealous of daughter Thomasin. And also a witch story of her own! Listen to two Catholics trying to wrap their brains around 17th century Protestant, Puritan, English immigrants. So was it The Devil or ergot poisoning all along? Only Black Phillip knows for sure.