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Häxan (Motion picture)

LC control no.n 2015015694
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Uniform title headingHäxan (Motion picture)
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Found inRealizing the Witch, 2015: ECIP data view (Häxan; The witch; 1922 Swedish/Danish silent horror film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen; based partly on Christensen's study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th-century German guide for inquisitors, Häxan is a study of how superstition and the misunderstanding of diseases and mental illness could lead to the hysteria of the witch-hunts; The film was made as a documentary but contains dramatized sequences that are comparable to horror film)