Awesome, thank you! My dictionaries were telling me "scream" and "disgust" for "schreien" and "Widerwillen", but I thought I would check with you, because I thought "cry" was more likely, and I didn't want to go with something as strong as "intense dislike" without checking.

"Baptism": that makes sense, thank you. I was trying to figure out how a literal Christian baptism would work at all in this context.

"Lifted up the table": good to see my guess from context was pretty much right.