Imaginary Latvian Witches Who Contact the Dead
in the CW series “The Vampire Diaries” (2017), created by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec
ALARIC: So what the hell happened?
MATT: I don’t know, but I’m telling you, I could feel the heat from the flames hear the screams of all those people burning.
ALARIC: Are you sure it wasn’t just a nightmare? You know, your mind trying to work out that you almost rang the bell and burned down Mystic Falls?
MATT: No, Ric, this was different. It was like I was actually there.
DORIAN: Maybe you were. And I don’t think this is just colonial bling. Based on the time period and the local coven activity, I think this could be a witch talisman that’s somehow tied to the Maxwell bloodline. Maybe those weren’t nightmares. Maybe they were memories.
MATT: How is that even possible?
ALARIC: Well, I’ve heard of Latvian witches using something like that to contact the dead. You know, a way to create a psychic link between the living and their ancestors.
DORIAN: Yeah, and that might explain how you slept-walked your way into those tunnels.
MATT: Okay, then who am I linked to?
DORIAN: If I had to guess… I’d say the skeleton we found in the artifact room. Some of the things you saw, he saw, too. He wrote about them in his journal. There are references to working with a coven of Bennett witches.
MATT: Bennett?
DORIAN: Yeah.
MATT: I wonder if Bonnie would know something about this. Everything okay?
ALARIC: No. No, it’s…it’s bad.
