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* MacabreMothMotif: Syibl's evil soul manifests as a moth which crawls out of her mouth after she dies, and her mother tries to keep it away from her body so she can't come back to life.
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* MacabreMothMotif: Syibl's Sybil's evil soul manifests as a moth which crawls out of her mouth after she dies, and her mother tries to keep it away from her body so she can't come back to life.
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* OurSoulsAreDifferent: Sybil's soul appears as a moth that exits her mouth once she dies, and must be placed back inside before dawn so she can return to life. The end of the episode has the moth entering the mother's body when she grabs it to keep it from Sybil's corpse, allowing Syibl to use her mother as a new vessel.
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* OurSoulsAreDifferent: Sybil's soul appears as a moth that exits her mouth once she dies, and must be placed back inside before dawn so she can return to life. The end of the episode has the moth entering the mother's body when she grabs it to keep it from Sybil's corpse, allowing Syibl Sybil to use her mother as a new vessel.
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* SomewhereAnEntomologistIsCrying: The moth that represents Sybil's soul is heard chittering like a squirrel or mouse as it flies around the jar it's locked in. Some moths are known to make squeaking sounds, but none like this. The moth itself actually resembles a painted lady butterfly more than an actual moth.
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* SomewhereAnEntomologistIsCrying: The moth that represents Sybil's soul is heard chittering like a squirrel or mouse as it flies around the jar it's locked in. Some moths are known to make squeaking sounds, but none like this. The Furthermore, the moth itself actually resembles a painted lady butterfly more than an actual moth.
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!!The Moth
Sybil is a practicing witch, which her devout Christian mother disapproves greatly. As Sybil lies dying in bed, she reveals a plan to her mother where she will capture her own soul and return to life through witchcraft. All her mother has to do is to follow her daughter's instructions. Not wanting to go against her beliefs, the mother plans to stop Sybil somehow.
!!Tropes:
* MacabreMothMotif: The daughter's witchy soul is manifested as one such little moth.
* MortonsFork: If the mother had just done as her witch daughter instructed, she would've gone on to do more black magic and bring evil to the world. But when the mother tries to use the spellbook to keep the daughter away from her moth-soul, it ends up getting her possessed by her daughter's spirit. Either way, there was never going to be a good outcome where the mother came out on top.
* PoorCommunicationKills: If the mother had bothered to learn what would happen if she disobeyed her daughter, she might not have been so quick to keep the moth away from her.
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Sybil is a practicing witch, which her devout Christian mother disapproves greatly. As Sybil lies dying in bed, she reveals a plan to her mother where she will capture her own soul and return to life through witchcraft. All her mother has to do is to follow her daughter's instructions. Not wanting to go against her beliefs, the mother plans to stop Sybil somehow.
!!Tropes:
* MacabreMothMotif: The daughter's witchy soul is manifested as one such little moth.
* MortonsFork: If the mother had just done as her witch daughter instructed, she would've gone on to do more black magic and bring evil to the world. But when the mother tries to use the spellbook to keep the daughter away from her moth-soul, it ends up getting her possessed by her daughter's spirit. Either way, there was never going to be a good outcome where the mother came out on top.
* PoorCommunicationKills: If the mother had bothered to learn what would happen if she disobeyed her daughter, she might not have been so quick to keep the moth away from her.
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Sybil ([[Music/{{Blondie}} Debbie Harry]]) is a
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* AndIMustScream: Sybil writhes in agony as her time of death finally chimes, the moth that is her soul finally exiting her mouth at the end of the first act.
* AntagonisticOffspring: Sybil despises her mother for not allowing her to practice her witchcraft, and later takes over her body when she actively tries to stop her from cheating death. The mother notes that the feeling is mutual, as she hates how her daughter practices black magic and uses it to raise hell in their village, yet still treats her as a beloved daughter regardless.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: As Sybil
* TheBadGuyWins: Sybil manages to cheat death by taking over her mother's body, reclaiming her spellbook and preparing to inflict more evil on the world.
* BatmanGambit: Sybil plans one to get possession of her mother's body no matter what she
* BeatItByCompulsion: Sybil's mother
* BottleEpisode: The episode is set within the confines of Sybil and her mother's rustic cabin home.
* CannotCrossRunningWater: By reading Sybil's spellbook, her mother learns that the dead cannot cross water, and their bodies must be surrounded by it if they're to be prevented from getting their souls back. She attempts to keep Sybil's body from leaving the bed by surrounding it with jars filled with water, but the soulless body manages to circumvent this by turning the water into milk.
* CantGetAwayWithNuthin: Hours after she fatally stabs Sybil, Annie is said to be dead by the young witch's mother, having been shot by her brainwashed husband Eugene.
* CardCarryingVillain: Sybil very clearly loves causing trouble with her demonic magic, and she has no hesitation with possessing her mother's body to cheat death.
* ChromosomeCasting: Sybil and her mother are the only characters to appear on screen.
* ClingyMacguffin: The jar Sybil's mother traps the titular moth inside, which rolls back to her when she throws it across the room and becomes impossible to break. The mother assumes that Sybil enchanted the jar so only she can open it with her last breaths.
* DemonicPossession: Sybil takes control of her mother when she dies, thanks to her attempts to interfere in the ritual to return her to life.
* DissonantSerenity: Sybil remains stoic and nonchalant (albeit weakened) after she returns home stabbed in the chest, even passing the time until she dies by manipulating a voodoo candle of Annie to make her husband shoot her. It can be assumed that she's so calm because she already had her plan to take over her mother's body thought out from the very beginning.
* DownerEnding: Sybil takes over her mother's body when she absentmindedly clutches the titular moth, and ends the episode preparing to go out and cause more evil.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: As Sybil tells her mother near the end of the opening act, she's going to die, but she's not going to "leave this Earth".
* ForTheEvulz: Sybil's mother notes that she enjoys using her black magic just to cause trouble. The plot comes about because she was stabbed by local woman Annie Lee after stealing her husband's soul and forcing him to fall in love with her. Sybil claims that she did so because Annie always hated her, but her mother rightly accuses her of just wanting to
* [[IHaveNoSon I Have No Daughter]]: Sybil's mother
* ImmuneToFire: Sybil's mother tries to burn her evil daughter's spellbook when she finds it hidden in her dresser, but learns that the book is impervious to flames.
* ItAmusedMe: As stated above, Sybil
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* LoveMartyr: A familial version occurs with Sybil's mother, who calls her daughter evil and notes that she's brought nothing but pain to her ever since she was born, but she still loved her nonetheless, and this makes it difficult for her to choose between destroying her daughter's soul or letting her stay alive and cause more trouble.
* MacabreMothMotif:
* MortonsFork: If
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: Sybil's soul appears as a moth that exits her mouth once she dies, and must be placed back inside before dawn so she can return to life. The end of the episode has the moth entering the mother's body when she grabs it to keep it from Sybil's corpse, allowing Syibl to use her mother as a new vessel.
* OurWitchesAreDifferent: As Sybil demonstrates, a witch's soul takes the form of a moth that climbs out of the mouth once they die, and can be put back inside the witch's mouth to make them return to life, so long as it's before dawn. They also share some traits with vampires, such as an inability to cross water and a compulsion to count miniature objects like grains of sand when their soulless bodies reanimate.
* PoorCommunicationKills: If
* TheSociopath: Sybil, who uses black magic to screw with the local villagers simply because she can.
* SomewhereAnEntomologistIsCrying: The moth that represents Sybil's soul is heard chittering like a squirrel or mouse as it flies around the jar it's locked in. Some moths are known to make squeaking sounds, but none like this. The moth itself actually resembles a painted lady butterfly more than an actual moth.
* SoullessShell: As her mother works on keeping the titular moth away from her, Sybil's soulless corpse awakens and goes right back to asking her mother if she saved the moth. She even attempts to leave her bed to get the moth back, showing some hesitancy towards the protective wards that her mother left on and around her.
* TimeSkip: Near the end, as Sybil's body honors her mother's request to count the grains of sand the mother put in front of her door to simulate the earth she's buried under, the episode skips to the next morning, where she finally finishes counting all those grains.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: Sybil's spellbook, which her mother tries to destroy, but unfortunately discovers to be fireproof.
* UnnamedParent: Sybil's put-upon mother and future vessel.
* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: Sybil declares that she'll die of her stab wound by midnight, and that her soul has to return to her mouth before dawn to bring her back to life. Her mother tries breaking the clock to prevent this,
* WickedWitch: Sybil, who lives to cause trouble, keeps torturing people with magical artifacts as she's near death, and takes over her own mother's body to keep living and keep inflicting evil.
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!!The Moth
Sybil is a practicing witch, which her devout Christian mother disapproves greatly. As Sybil lies dying in bed, she reveals a plan to her mother where she will capture her own soul and return to life through witchcraft. All her mother has to do is to follow her daughter's instructions. Not wanting to go against her beliefs, the mother plans to stop Sybil somehow.
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Sybil is a practicing witch, which her devout Christian mother disapproves greatly. As Sybil lies dying in bed, she reveals a plan to her mother where she will capture her own soul and return to life through witchcraft. All her mother has to do is to follow her daughter's instructions. Not wanting to go against her beliefs, the mother plans to stop Sybil somehow.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: If the mother had bothered to learn what would happen if she disobeyed her daughter, she might not have been so quick to keep the moth away from her.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: If the mother had bothered to learn what would happen if she disobeyed her daughter, she might not have been so quick to keep the moth away from her.her.
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* MacabreMothMotif: The daughter's witchy soul is manifested as one such little moth.
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* MortonsFork: If the mother had just done as her witch daughter instructed, she would've gone on to do more black magic and bring evil to the world. But when the mother tries to use the spellbook to keep the daughter away from her moth-soul, it ends up getting her possessed by her daughter's spirit. Either way, there was never going to be a good outcome where the mother came out on top.
* PoorCommunicationKills: If the mother had bothered to learn what would happen if she disobeyed her daughter, she might not have been so quick to keep the moth away from her.
* PoorCommunicationKills: If the mother had bothered to learn what would happen if she disobeyed her daughter, she might not have been so quick to keep the moth away from her.
