Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181110034633/@comment-10390252-20181112145830

When you think about it, Salem was always likely to go off the deep end: She likely spent most of her life isolated by a controlling father with little or no social interaction. She's freed and falls head-over-heels into obsession with her rescuer (which she interpreted as love having no other frame of reference). Then that person is snatched away by sickness. Obsession leads to possessiveness and obsessives can get very, very irrationally violent if what they consider to be 'theirs' is removed from them.

Every step after that was as good as calculated to incrase her sense of grievance and victimhood with the gods and... well, essentially everyone else. Like most psychotics, Salem blames everyone else for her problems and has the power to make that paranoid viewpoint affect everyone else in a catastrophic manner.

She is evil but, as I have said before, she is as much a victim as a villain in many ways. If it wasn't for the fact that she's so powerful as to be too dangerous to leave alive, permanent institutionalisation might have been an effective measure. Maybe in time, with enough work (especially by Ozma), she may have become stable enough to release into society and only then could she be able to work constructively towards meeting the conditions the Brothers Grimm set to release her from her curse.