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Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost (1999)

★ 7.4 · 476 ratings on TMDB
Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost poster★ 7.4

Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Gang visit Oakhaven, Massachusetts to seek strange goings on involving a famous horror novelist and his ancestor who is rumored to have been a witch.

DirectorJim Stenstrum
CastB.J. Ward, Bob Joles, Frank Welker, Jane Wiedlin, Jennifer Hale, Kimberly Brooks
GenresAnimation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
The emergence reading

Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, economy, magic, culture.

zero-distanceUSprejudiceeconomymagicculture
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E0lawreality includes a manipulable magical law that lets spells alter matter and imprison beings (physics · universal)
Also inFilms about prejudiceFilms that alter a rule of reality
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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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