- Midsomer comes closer and closer to its boiling point when a priest is burned to death inside the effigy of a straw woman and more people burst into flames spontaneously as though by witchcraft.
- When the curate of the local church in Midsomer Parva is burned alive in the effigy of the straw woman, DCI Tom Barnaby and DS Dan Scott find themselves investigating what must be a murder. Many of the villagers lay the blame on Alan Clifford who has made his fortune in the sex industry and has moved into the local manor house. There were others in the village however that objected to what they saw as a pagan festival. When the vicar is also killed - he too is burned to death in what some believe is the result of spontaneous combustion - the police have difficulty keeping some of the villagers from taking justice into their own hands. As the death toll keep mounting, Barnaby realizes that the solution is to be found in old parish records.—garykmcd
- The villagers of Midsomer Parva have all come out one evening to see the revival of an old Pagan festival, starring a huge straw effigy of a woman. When it is set alight the public's wonder soon turns to horror when the presiding local curate screams out in pain from within the effigy. The villagers quickly turn against Liz Francis, a local teacher who had organized the event. As the police investigate, they discover that the curate had been in dispute with Alan Clifford, an impresario who had recently moved into the area and stages orgies at the Manor House he bought, actually being terminally ill and trusting his rivaling female deputies. When another deaths result from bouts of 'spontaneous' human combustion, actually phosphor-sprinkled clothes, the vicar in church and Liz who was first knocked unconscious with candle sticks, Barnaby and Scott realize someone abuses the illusion of witchcraft to hide their true motives, while old parish records hold possible antecedents in Renaissance witch persecution.—KGF Vissers
- When a traditional festival is revived at Midsomer Parva, it goes disastrously wrong, with the curate (or assistant priest) being burnt alive inside a straw effigy of a woman. Local property owner Alan Clifford holds an orgy at the Manor House, and it seems he has secrets... And then, just after finding a pig's head on the altar of the parish church, the dead curate's gay lover, the Reverend Jim Hale, dies too, seemingly of 'spontaneous combustion' - that is, he bursts into flames without any normal explanation. Barnaby refuses to believe in rumours of witchcraft and is vindicated when it proves that Hale's clothes had been sprinkled with phosphorus. Then, with Barnaby hot on the killer's trail, Liz Francis is knocked out with a candlestick and becomes the third villager to be burnt alive.—Anonymous
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