- "A dingy wooden church with darkened windows and a high mezzanine balcony. Modesty is playing a solitary variation of hopscotch, skipping in and out of a chalked grid...As she sings we see the church is full of group paraphernalia—leaflets advertising Mary Lou’s campaign, and a large version of the group’s anti-witchcraft banner."
- — Description about the Second Salem Church[src]
The Second Salem Church was a "dingy" church on Pike Street in New York City. An anti-witchcraft fanatic Mary Lou Barebone, head of the New Salem Philanthropic Society in the 1920s, held weekly meetings on Tuesday at 7:15pm, Wednesday at 6:15pm, and Sunday from 1 - 6pm.[1] Barebone and her three adopted children Credence, Chastity and Modesty lived upstairs. The downstairs included a long table where orphans came to eat soup and gather their pamphlets about persecuting witches and wizards for distribution.[2]
Description[]
The interior of the Salem Church
The church was painted brown on the walls of the church and green on the doors and roofs.[3]
One of the New Salemer pamplets referred to this as "The Old Church", implying that it was a disused chapel that was taken up by Mary Lou Barebone at some point.[4]
History[]
Mary Lou Barebone preparing to punish Credence
At some point, before December 1926, Porpentina Goldstein entered the church to magically attack Mary Lou Barebone in order to prevent her from abusing her adoptive son, Credence.
In late 1926, the Church was used by Mary Lou Barebone to feed poor No-Maj children, along with giving them anti-witchcraft literature. At one time, Mary Lou told a group of children she was feeding to collect several leaflets produced by her society before getting food.[2] At another time, Chastity Barebone rang the bell on the Church doorstep for poor children to come and get food.
Another time, whilst chanting an anti-witchcraft rhyme, Modesty Barebone took a dozen Witches Live Among Us! flyers while children were eating soup in the church, which she later disposed of in the street outside without anyone knowing.
The destroyed church
On 7 December 1926, the church was destroyed by Credence Barebone when Mary Lou tried to beat him with a belt once too often and his repressed magic burst forth in a violent Obscurus.[5]
Appearances[]
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay (First appearance)
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)
- Pottermore
- LEGO Dimensions
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film) - (see this image)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay, Scene 30
- ↑ (see this image)
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film) (see this image)
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay, Scene 88
