Judah Zachery was supposed to have had a coven. I think it met in Bedford Maine. I remember Julia pronounced coven with a long o like the word "cove" with an n attached.
During the Gerard storyline in 1840 there was talk of Judah's coven being revived. The lawyer character played by Humbert was supposed to be a surviving descendant member of the original Bradford coven, I believe.
It was kind of amusing how every time a lawyer appeared on DS, he seemingly turned out to be a devil-worshipper of some kind or other...
The original concept for Angelique was that she had learned some herbal lore and spellcraft, presumably from her mother; she was a type of what today would be called a Hedge Witch, solitary apart from any family members who might have instructed her. It wasn't until she showed up in 1968 that we began to get all the frou-frou about the Devil, presumably as a result of ROSEMARY'S BABY.
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