About the Wooley curse


When Nathaniel is telling his mother that Jennifer put a curse on him and his descendants I noticed there's a pause at the end. He explains the curse will be that he, and his children, and children's children will be doomed until.... Until? Until what? The mother probes.

This is left blank. His reply is simply that it's just too horrible to tell to his mother. I'm curious if one of the potential caveats happens to be that the curse could, possibly, be broken if a Wooley descendant married a witch (something puritanical New Englanders would be too horrified to say out loud?)

Just a random thought as I re-watch...

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Sic vis pacem para bellum.

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I had that exact thought!

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Here is the Curse explained. Wooley men are doomed to marry the wrong woman and it only way it can be broken is if a Wooley marries the RIGHT woman. That RIGHT woman can only be Jennifer. Why Jennifer? Because she not only put the curse on, but she and the Wooley man ( who had her and her father burned at the stake), loved each other. Keep in mind that after her and her father were freed from the tree she created the love potion to use on him, but a picture of the original Wooley fell on her head, and 1942 Wooley gave her the potion to drink. Basically Jennifer must be forgiven for witchcraft so she can be marry a Wooley and end the curse. Of course, Jennifer is cursed to return to the tree with her father, ( who is bored with life in Massachusetts), but the love that Wooley has for her, helps her defeat her father and return to Wooley. As Jennifer says "Love is stronger then witchcraft." The very ending shows that they will have a happy life together ( although the daughter they have is playing with a broom and as Jennifer says "She will cause us trouble").

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