Caleb is a major character in the 2015 horror film The Witch.
Biography[]
Caleb was the secondborn child of William and Katherine, a pair of English settlers living in 17th century America. He and his family were banished from a Puritan Plymouth colony over a religious dispute and left to live in the wild. His family decided to build a house near a forest; unbeknownst to them, the forest was infested by witches. He was the second person to die in his family.
Plot[]
After arriving at their new farm in the woods, Caleb is taken for a walk by his father. They discuss theology and the meaning of sin after selling some of their family's goods for money to survive. When they return home, Caleb and his father are admonished by Katherine for disappearing without a word.
Caleb overhears his parents discussing selling Thomasin to another household in order to get food. He decides to go hunting in order to bring his family food, though he is caught by Thomasin who forces him to take her with him. The two spot a hare while out, which sends their horse into a panic and Fowler to chase the hare, with Caleb in pursuit. Thomasin falls off the horse and is knocked out. Disoriented in the woods, Caleb stumbles upon Fowler's corpse and a witch's hut, where a young woman seduces Caleb, before kidnapping him and inflicting him with an unknown illness. The next night, he returns to his home naked and hysterical. The next morning, Caleb vomits a bloody apple before briefly proclaiming his love to Jesus Christ and dying soon after.