Burn, Witch, Burn

The unusual but gratifying opening over black, the default announcer of the era Paul Frees declares the "motion picture you are about to see" free from devilment, before the credits, in Burn, Witch, Burn, 1962, starring Peter Wyngarde and Janet Blair.

Upwardly mobile social science professor Norman (Peter Wyngarde) has discovered wife Tansy (Janet Blair) has a hidden stash of witching gear, and an undue sense of longing for their time spent in Jamaica, in Burn, Witch, Burn, 1962.

Following credits and a prologue about witchcraft, introduction of hip, handsome English professor Taylor (Peter Wyngarde), student Margaret (Judith Stott) more impressed than classmate Jennings (Bill Mitchell), from Burn, Witch, Burn, 1962, from the Fritz Leiber novel Conjure Wife.

Wrapping up the faculty bridge party, popular hosts Tansy (Janet Blair) and Norman (Peter Wyngarde) deflecting suggestive inquiries from Lindsay (Colin Gordon) and Flora (Margaret Johnston), then getting weirder afterward, in Burn, Witch, Burn, 1962.

A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years in Burn, Witch, Burn (1962).