The Skeleton Key/YMMV

• Complete Monster: Cecile and Justify, for causing the lynching of the children in their former bodies.
• Fridge Brilliance: Violet tells Caroline not to bother with the housework, as only she knows how to do it properly. Among housekeepers of the old south especially those familiar with hoodoo there are practices, such as using herbal washes on the floors and windows, laying lines of brick dust in doorways, and marking the corners of rooms with ammonia (or urine) to protect from evil.
  • Herding Caroline to make the circle and "dig herself in". There's no apparent reason, since they have issues with the whole believing thing, not getting people in circles, and apparently the spell doesn't require the victim to trick himself/herself. Then it hits: making up a "protective circle" is the ultimate test of faith, where the victims both consciously and unconsciously accept to believe, and show others that they do. And if you say outloud you believe in protection, you must believe in its opposite too...
• High Octane Nightmare Fuel: The dream sequence. *shudder*