When Witches Die, Ancestors #3 (of 12)
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5/5 stars
Favorite Run. The comics that focus on the Scarlet Witch tend to be my favorite and highest rated. BEAUTIFUL PANELS! I love anything
witchy
so I appreciated this run entirely. From the sigils to the talismans, to stumbling upon a secret village called New Salem that appeared from nowhere, I loved every second of it! A big scene from the TV series WandaVision, must have been inspired by this issue as well.
New character(s) I met:
• Salem's Seven 'Supreme' Villains-
Vertigo, Gazelle, Reptilia, Thornn, Hydron, Vakume, Brutacus
• Vertigo- Leader of Salem's Seven
— Priestess of all 666 New Salemites
— Queen of the New Salem Witches
— Eldest Granddaughter to Agatha Harkness, (but Scarlet was Agatha's chosen apprentice)
— Turns minds inside out
— She's African American with a beautiful afro + wears white priest robes
• Nicholas Scratch- deceased
— is mentioned quite a bit
See FF ANNUAL #14
Personal OCCULT Note:
New Salem is a place that always brings deep curiosity in me because of the history the place holds, but also when meeting my mother's real father over +20 years ago, we traveled to a place in North Dakota called New Salem to meet him. It was a very eerie and strange place. My new Grandpa had land in New Salem with a creek running through it that had caves in the hills. The place screamed "the hills have eyes people", but he was nice and kind. I visited that creek, but never went in the black water, and I never went in those caves. Bad accidents always happened whenever we visited or stayed. I always got violently sick around there and the people seemed strange, like far removed, yet impulsive and quick but slow at the same time. Unpredictable. I probably made it more than what it was at the time, but then again maybe I didn't, he did start acting out of his usual character towards the end and died mysteriously in his sleep on those same lands, no autopsy. It may not be New Salem Massachusetts, but weird things happen in New Salem, North Dakota too. Much of ND is on ancient Indian burial grounds; all the oil rigging + fracking there, has only made history repeat itself, and those who are sensitive, see and feel the curses beneath their feet beginning to rise and happen all over again. The New Salem's of the world appears to hold certain energy, a different portal to a bloody past, a realm of hell, here in the physical.