
Much like Jacques Tourneur's more famous Night of the Demon (1957, aka Curse of the Demon), Burn, Witch, Burn (1962) is an intelligently written and directed B-movie on the subject of witchcraft set in modern day. Later, the masonry supporting the eagle collapses, and Flora is killed as the stone edifice crashes to the earth. That night, the Taylor home catches fire, and a huge stone eagle from one of the university buildings suddenly comes to life and attacks Norman. Eventually, Norman learns that Flora Carr, the crippled wife of his rival for the chairmanship of the sociology department, is also a practitioner of witchcraft and has hypnotized Tansy into obeying her commands. When he brings her home, she attempts to kill him and later turns on the wife of one of his colleagues. Then, one evening, Tansy disappears Norman finds her nearly dead in a graveyard. Following Tansy's warning that his action has left him vulnerable to evil forces, Norman's luck changes: a girl student charges him with rape, her boyfriend threatens him, and his car runs into a ditch.

When he accidentally discovers her secret, he destroys her instruments of black magic.

Tansy Taylor, the wife of an English university professor, secretly practices witchcraft to further her husband, Norman's, career.
