Episode 17 - White Is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

I feel like you've got something to say on this subject, Pike.

Yeah.

No, I'm waiting for people to argue.

It's, I mean, the most interesting, yes, not the best, is a particularly terrible sort of person in the house.

Was it Grand, do you all reckon it was Grand Anna that started it or just that it was already racist before? It just happened to be Grand Anna who owned it at the time.

Should we

maybe say who these characters are? That there's a house, and its identity blends with three women who are female relatives of Miranda, who lives in the here and now, and it's her mother, her grandmother, and her great-grandmother.

And Grandana is the grandmother.

Yeah, so there's great-grandana, the grandmother.

Then there's Jennifer, who was her grandmother, but who... disappeared, i.e. she was going to leave her daughter, and then the house kind of swallowed her up and kept her there.

And then there was her mother, who was Lily.

And then there's Miri, or Miranda, who is a daughter, who is represented via the third-person voice.

That's it, I think, isn't it?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think maybe I fucking hallucinated this, but I thought in terms of your original question, wasn't there a bit in the book where it was stated that it was Anna who performed some kind of ritual and awoke the house, which then absorbed her characteristics and then later on her herself?

I don't remember that.

I

think you hallucinated.

I remember that there was a breakdown mentioned and then Miri mentioned that she was by, Grand Anna was by her bed on the floor covering her face and there was blood on her hands and her brother was saying, no, she was just having a breakdown and her mother didn't seem to be too keen on the whole thing being brought up.

But I don't remember doing a ritual of any kind.

It's just

your satanic side speaking.

Yeah.

Could be.