The. Witch _verified_

The first horror is economic. The corn fails. The traps yield no game. The family is starving, not just physically, but spiritually. Then, the infant Samuel vanishes while Thomasin is playing peek-a-boo. Eggers shows us the abduction instantly—a grotesque crone steals the baby, grinds him into a paste, and smears his blood on her body to fly. By revealing the witch in the first ten minutes, Eggers subverts the "is she or isn't she" trope. The witch is real.

: The concept of the "Witch Wound"—the ancestral trauma passed down from historical persecutions—is explored at Mage by Moonlight The. Witch