Two witches in colonial Salem, Jennifer and her father Daniel, are burned at the stake after being denounced by Puritan Jonathan Wooley and their ashes buried beneath a tree to imprison their evil spirits. In revenge, Jennifer curses Wooley and all his male descendants - they are doomed to always marry the wrong person. In the 20th Century lightning hits the tree freeing the two witches, who now seek to avenge themselves on one of Wooley's descendants who is running for governor.