Examples Of Magic In Black Sunday

If magic was so abundant in the past, where is it today? In the past, sorcery was everywhere, feared by most even if there were some practices aimed to be positive (think). Magic, sorcery and the occult have been integrated into our history and cultures for many centuries, venturing as far back as Classical Greece. For example, Hecate was pronounced as the goddess of magic, witchcraft and much more. Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, parts of Europe entered a witch craze. “The distinction between natural and demonic magic continued to structure thinking about magic.” In Mario Bava’s movie Black Sunday illustrates the connection between the occult and the movie through representation of the continues usage/mention of curses,

As Frankeurter (2005) described, a curse is “a ritual performance that transfers subversive power to some object, or the subversive power that plagues one following such a performance.”

In Black Sunday we are introduced to Asa Vajda as she is being tied up to a post. We soon learn that she was put on trial, accused of being witch and associating with the devil. She was found guilty and condemned to be burned at the stake. Historically, being burned at the stake was something that was done often. The Salem Witch Trials are probably the example that most people know of. However, beyond Salem, being burned at the stake has a lot of symbolic significance. A public execution has always been a way to demonstrate the power and authority a state or a

She possesses Kruvajan to get closer to her tomb and than they share a kiss. However, at the end the end of the move, Kruvajan was found already dead in a grave, and the he was sent to rest by the exorcism preformed by the priest. By placing the cross on top of his forehead the priest proves that Satan was playing with the undead body and by piercing his left eye, the priest performs a sort of exorcism where his soul could finally rest in peace. Possessions and exorcisms go hand in hand, we can’t have one without the other. However, exorcism practices blur the lines of the “holy and unholy” which can result that “exorcists ran the risk of being fooled by—or drawn into league with—the devil. (franc)” However, even with this shortcoming, exorcism expanded rapidly after 1550. A theory on why there was a sudden uprise of this practice is that it was believed that Satan was had infiltrated the world and was already at work. This fear fueled events such as witch trials, and social upheavals and political upheavals and other similar events. Exorcisms occur when priest use blessed object or an apparatus that houses a strong association with the Catholic Church and/ or God. For example, demons cringe at the sight of a crucifix, much like how in the movie possessed Kruvajan would shutter or run away at the sight of one, and how his skin burned at the touch of