So I recently started watching Cabinet of Curiosities, and I'm not clear on a few things in the first episode.

1) The Hopping. Initially, I thought the hopping was supposed to be some sort of signal to something the old occultist was keeping in his apartment, to tell it to come out of hiding/go back (kind of like when Ace Venture jangles his keys, only with something less savory than an otter in the toilet), and the failure to do so would be what resulted in the death of the main character Nick Appleton (I won't call him the protagonist). But then the hoping is never revisited aside from a brief flash back, with no obvious tie in/logic. I've seen some theories he was practicing hoping over the drawn pentacle lines, but if that was the case why hop AFTER delivering the rabbit to the demon? Practicing before going in kind of makes sense, but after coming out? And doing so backwards?

2) Why did the fourth book combust? I understand the fourth book was supposed to burn when the contract was complete and the demon took what was promised to it, in this case the old man likely promised the demon in Dottie's body his soul and trapped it before it could collect, but then why did it go up in flames when the Austrian cultist was devoured? Was he supposed to be the one who actually summoned and bound the demon way back when? If so, why didn't he already have the book before? Is the demon supposed to be able to collect ANY soul it can get it's hands/tentacles on? Are immortal souls fungible? That seems a little unfair from a divine/spiritual perspective.

3) Why didn't the candelabra work? With the Nazi Germany connection, the human hair art piece, and the comment about how the gold was gathered a little bit at a time, I think it's fair to say it was supposed to be wrought from the gold teeth of Jews killed during the holocaust or surrounding events. Not certain why that's supposed to ward away a demon but there we are. We see the candelabra flair to life when the lines are initially broken by Nick Appleton (speaking of which, considering we see and hear something within Dottie's corpse moving, why the FUCK did he go anywhere near it? Like even if he was still an unbeliever I wouldn't want much to do with that room at the moment).

4) Was it just me, or was Emilia's reaction to seeing nick in trouble unfair? I get it, he was an ass and unkind, which was the main message of the episode, but If she knew about the demon (I don't think she was supposed to but eh), it's far from an equitable reaction, though foreshadowed with the whole "I hope you rot in hell comment", and if she didn't seeing a man yelling for help like that from inside a building and locking him in seems disproportionally malicious.

And yes, I know I take my bullshit/fiction to seriously.