Pace and Joe are joined by special guest Elle Mills-Warner to talk about the 2015 film, the VVitch. We take a deep dive into the history of witchcraft, especially how it came to be associated with Satan, and contemporary witchcraft practices. Also, are there vegan recipes to make flying ointment? Find out all of this and more in the latest episode of Horror Nerds at Church.
Content warnings: mentions of colonialism, sexism, and toxic family dynamics in discussion of the film, and a mention of growing up in an abusive household in the real life church horror story.
Books Mentioned:
-John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality
-Helmut Puff, Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland, 1400-1600
-Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe
-Roald Dahl, The Witches
-Heinrich Kramer (trans. Montague Summers), Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of the Witches)
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