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In the Rebellion movie, the girls are performing a sort of a ritual that
materializes a giant cake filled with whatever they are singing about. Then
it's eaten by Bebe in Candy Witch form. It's all fun and nice, but what is the
purpose of this ritual? Is it some sort of made-up substitute for transforming
witch energy like Kyuubey did by eating the grief seeds, but with Bebe Witch
instead? Perhaps there's some info on that in manga/novels?

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What is the meaning of the cake song?


Firstly,

> Is it some sort of made-up substitute for transforming witch energy like
> Kyuubey did by eating the grief seeds, but with Bebe Witch instead

Remember that the world we see at the beginning is a false world and we later
learn that it's

> Homura's Witch Labyrinth contained in an Incubator Isolation Field

as such, we can probably assume that any and all reason for Magical Girls to
exist (to balance entropy for the Incubators) won't apply here, and the
Nightmares are just a way to explain (to the girls at least) why they are
Magical Girls: probably as a means to stabilize the realism.

> Since we see Homura's Familiars acting as some of the populace and when
> Homura begins to realize the truth as she is taken further away from her
> Soul Gem the Labyrinth's reality begins to become unstable like with the
> airships plummeting.

The [Wikia](http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Cake_Song) seems to call the song a
nursery rhyme game which would play into the playful nature of the Nightmares.
As for the purpose, we see see with Hitomi's Nightmare it seems to be used to
turn the Nightmares into something Bebe would eat to then revert the Nightmare
back to their original form (as after the Girl's Soul Gems are purified,
Hitomi reappears in her bed). Bebe being able to revert them must extend from
the powers Madoka gave her when, along with Sayaka, the 3 of them first
entered the fake world.


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