Hit her with the birch twigs and marshall a crowd of claws and peepers.
[and then try]
Bag their eyes with sordid flares and scandalous noisemakers.
[and then try]
Blur the distinction between tribute and torture: just enough of each.
[and then try]
The audience backs odds on purity or pregnancy.
[and then try]
She will be a critical darling or she will not be, depending on the rhythm of the spell and the keenness of her appetite.