3.09 Malleus Maleficarum
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Title | Malleus Maleficarum |
Episode # | Season 3, Episode 9 |
First aired | January 31, 2008 |
Directed by | Robert Singer |
Written by | Ben Edlund |
On IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032141/ |
Outline | Sam and Dean investigate a coven of witches |
Monster | Witches and Demons |
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Contents
Synopsis
Characters
Definitions
Music
- Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn -plays on the radio when the husband is in the car
- Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You - plays right after the Poison song, when the radio goes wacky, and plays again when the husband starts choking
Quotes
Ruby: You need to help me get him ready for life without you. To fight this war on his own.
Dean: Ruby? Why do you want us to win?
Ruby: Isn't it obvious? I'm not like them. I wish I was, but I'm not. I remember what it's like.
Dean: What what's like?
Trivia & References
Malleus Maleficarum means Hammer of the Witches in latin, and it was the title for a fifteenth century treatise on witches. It was used to support argue the nature and reality of witchcraft and was used in the persecution and murder of women accused of witchcraft across Europe in in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Dean: So are we looking for some craggy old Blair bitch in the woods?
A reference to the movie The Blair Witch Project.
A reference to the movie The Blair Witch Project.
Dean: It’s like Fatal Attraction all over again.
Fatal Attraction was a 1987 movie starring Glenn Close and Michael Douglas. After a brief affair while his family is away, Michael Douglas’ character wants no more to do with Glenn Close. She starts stalking and terrorising him and his family, and in a famous scene, kills the family’s pet rabbit, and leaves it boiling on the stove for them to find.
Fatal Attraction was a 1987 movie starring Glenn Close and Michael Douglas. After a brief affair while his family is away, Michael Douglas’ character wants no more to do with Glenn Close. She starts stalking and terrorising him and his family, and in a famous scene, kills the family’s pet rabbit, and leaves it boiling on the stove for them to find.
Sam: I’m Detective Bachman. This is Detective Turner.
A reference to the 1970s Canadian rock band Bachman Turner Overdrive, which featured three Bachman brothers and Fred Overdrive.
A reference to the 1970s Canadian rock band Bachman Turner Overdrive, which featured three Bachman brothers and Fred Overdrive.
Ruby: It’s called witchcraft shortbus
Dean: You’re the shortbus…shortbus
Tammi: That’s what happened when you get voted off the island.
A reference to the system of contestant elimination on the reality TV show Survivor
A reference to the system of contestant elimination on the reality TV show Survivor
Tammi: What did you think it was? Make believe? Positive thinking? The Secret?
The Secret is a self help film and book, which claims to teach people who to attract good things into their lives.
The Secret is a self help film and book, which claims to teach people who to attract good things into their lives.
Minutiae
The boys are staying at The Conquistador Motel