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Knocker's Hole was a marginal neighborhood of Salem, Massachusetts, close to the harbor. It was the focus of several events of the second and third seasons of Salem.
Description[]
Knocker's Hole was an area near the harbor that is home to Salem's undesirables. This includes the poor, the sick, and the outcasts. The quality of life was subpar compared to that of the town proper, although it was less strictly puritanical. Knocker's Hole was home to the Dinley's barbershop as well as a number of brothels, including the Bird's Nest, where the witch Mercy Lewis resides for a time as its madame.
Throughout Salem[]
Season Two[]
Knocker's Hole is the scene of a theft from the hold of a ship from which a child steals a chicken from its cage. When one of the sailors chases him, he ends up in a plague-infested house and is infected when one of the household victims gets sick on him. [1]
In the following days, the selectmen are fighting over the best course of action to counter the plague. Dr. Samuel Wainwright arrives to town to study the singular outbreaks and informs the locals that Knocker's Hole is riddled with the infection. Magistrate Wendell Hathorne, who seized the power after the passing of Magistrate John Hale has no intention of letting the marginalised community to spread the disease but Mary Sibley takes the chance offered by the doctor to further her secret agenda — tossing the corpses into the Crags. Mary Sibley escorts the Dr. Wainwright to Salem Hospital, where he can treat the patients. [2]
A little girl from Knocker's Hole is lured by Countess Von Marburg to a well, where the witch snatches her through her specter. Afterwards, using the girl as a conduit for her spell, the Countess pollutes the water tank of the House of the Seven Gables in order to produce a spectral attack on Mary Sibley during her bath.[3] After she survived the attack, Mary Sibley orders Anne Hale to descend into the well, get a water charm, and seal it with a spell. Anne barely manages to cast her spell as she battles with the water hag and her own fears of limited spaces.[4]
The humble Knocker's Hole offers refuge to John Alden, the mysterious witch hunter indicated by Alexander Corwin's severed finger to Tituba and Mary Sibley in one of their spells as his murderer.[5]
Mercy Lewis kidnaps children from the slum after allying herself with the Countess and her son Baron Sebastian Von Marburg. At first, Mercy abducts a little girl from a spinning mill with the promise of an orange. The little girl serves as a victim for the blood sacrifice that allows the ancient witch to retain her youthful, handsome appearance. A process also used by Mercy since she she was burned alive and survived deeply scarred.[6]
When Mercy gets out of the Countess's good graces and cursed back to her burn appearance, Mercy starts kidnapping children for herself. One of these is Dorcas, but the little girl is rescued by Isaac Walton, who promises to fight the witch. Mercy later abducts another child by luring him to her when his mother was distracted. [7]
Season Three[]
TBA
Quotes[]
- Girl: "Don't go in there."
- Man: "Who's down there?"
- Girl: "Death."
- — Cry Havoc
- Dr Wainwright: "I have just been to where your weakest reside, in wretched Knocker's Hole. I had hoped to give them more voice here than they obviously have, but I find you all consumed with petty politics. I'm headed back there now to see what can be done."
- Mary Sibley: "Well said, Sir. Well said. It is high time this board made it clear that however abject they may be and whether they pray at meeting or not, the least among us is our responsibility, too. I shall accompany you to see how they fare and to show our support."
- — Cry Havoc
Trivia[]
- A nickname for the shipyards in Salem that were gathered around the area of Norman Street and at the foot of Becket Street. The noise from so many ship-builders gave this district the name of "Knocker's Hole" from the incessant pounding of the carpenter's mallets.[8]
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References[]
- ↑ Brannon Braga & Adam Simon (writer) & Nick Copus (director). July 13, 2014. "Cry Havoc". Salem. Season 2. Episode 1. WGN.
- ↑ Brannon Braga & Adam Simon (writer) & Allan Arkush (director). July 13, 2014. "Blood Kiss". Salem. Season 2. Episode 2. WGN.
- ↑ Kelly Souders & Brian Peterson (writer) & Alex Zakrzewski (director). July 13, 2014. "From Within". Salem. Season 2. Episode 3. WGN.
- ↑ Joe Menosky & Adam Simon (writer) & Allan Kroeker (director). July 13, 2014. "Book of Shadows". Salem. Season 2. Episode 4. WGN.
- ↑ Joe Menosky & Adam Simon (writer) & Allan Kroeker (director). July 13, 2014. "Book of Shadows". Salem. Season 2. Episode 4. WGN.
- ↑ Donna Thorland & Adam Simon (writer) & Joe Dante (director). July 13, 2014. "The Beckoning Fair One". Salem. Season 2. Episode 7. WGN.
- ↑ Adam Simon (writer) & Brannon Braga (director). July 13, 2014. "The Witching Hour". Salem. Season 2. Episode 13. WGN.
- ↑ Salem in the Eighteenth Century by James Duncan Phillips, p. 276