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Ezekiel 2022-08-16 17:25:20
Witch textbook
The black-and-white silent film of 1922 told an interesting topic, and it seems that there are still not many such subjects. Although the description of witches is terrible, this old movie looks more like a light comedy from current eyes, with many fantasy scenes such as the old witch who cooks...
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Christy 2022-08-16 18:03:52
Extremely rigorous is a kind of humor
It is much better than I thought. It may be the best silent film I have ever watched. The carnival paragraphs of the third and fourth chapters can be taken even 100 years later. The heretical tribunal paragraphs as the highlight is more refined than the same type of Dreyer movies. Compare the first...
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Lovelorn Woman: Karna, can you perchance get me a love potion that has power over a pious man of the church?
Karna - the Witch: Here, young maiden, take a potion of cat feces and dove hearts, boiled during the full moon. A drop of this in a man's drink will soften his heart at once.
Lovelorn Woman: Karna, can i have an even stronger potion?
Karna - the Witch: If the maiden wishes to drive the man out of his wits for love... I have a potion boiled in May from a young and playful male sparrow. Hold your coins, maiden! First smell my ointment! This ointment is good, should you wish to travel to Brocken one night. Secretly smear this ointment on and the pious monk might come directly to your chamber. You will then fly high up in the night air together and he will bestow upon you many hungry kisses.
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Chief Inquisitor: Listen, Maria the Weaver, did you also see the devil put his mark on the witches' foreheads?
Marie, the Seamstress: Oh, learned men, I saw the witches kiss the evil one on his behind. And the mother of Anna, the printer's wife, wished me a scalding death - that damned woman, I saw her kissing the evil one so tenderly...
