I think you've told me before about the reason for using "Jennett." It's a perfectly good one - and much more reasoned and considered than the reasons for other name choices I've encountered. I'm not a creature of absolutes, just one of notoriously strong opinions, so I can actually see good reasons for things I might otherwise disagree with. Your name choice is one of them. I'm your age - I remember as a joke yelling "Jennifer" in large crowds to see who looked around.

You're right that the ergot poison is biologically unlikely. They were trying way too hard to tie it in with the Salem hysteria. It might have been more plausible if someone checked the rye flour storage and found a leak in the tupperware with water dripping on it or something.

I wasn't totally dissatisfied with the ep; I do follow the show and one element of it made me really happy. But at this point I'm concerned with how the whole of paganism is coming off. These representations in modern fiction are based on the noises we make, and it looks like we need to do a little refinement.