Demonic Possession, Sorcery & Satanic Pacts - Witchcraft and Exorcism in 17th Century Loudon France
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Published 2023-10-13
#witchcraft #occultism #satan #demons #magic
Recommended Reading:
De Certeau - The Possession at Loudun - 978-0226100357
Ferber - Demonic Possession and Exorcism In Early Modern France - 978-0415212656
Huxley - The Devils of Loudun - 978-0061724916
The Devils (film) - archive.org/details/1971-the-devils/%5B1971%5D+The…
All Comments (21)
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i remember, as a child, being very disappointed when i realized i couldnt skip hard work and substitute satanic pacts instead, to achieve power and success 😖
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The fire, healthy dose of wine and reading a book on medieval possession, exorcism and torture just sounds like a perfect fall evening to me. I will be watching “The Devils” tonight
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A video about Jesuits and their relationship with the occult throughout history would be very interesting. It's a topic that's been very overlooked, without many easy to access sources
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Nothing is scarier than a nun. Ask any Catholic school student.
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What always fascinated me about the whole thing was how open Jeanne des Anges was about being an awful person. She wrote an autobiography where she took pride in the horrible things she did, starting well before the Loudon Possessions (like how she manipulated her way into being mother superior of her convent). Just an absolutely terrible person who hurt a lot of innocent people.
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Since the world today is free of repression, other-directed anxiety, politically-motivated paranoia and neuroses, it's thankfully impossible that there could ever be a case of mass hysteria followed by the public punishment of a scapegoat. The very idea...
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This channel is amazing. I'm a fiction author that writes a lot about demons/demonology. I'm hooked on your work
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Lets take a bunch of girls from their homes and families, put them in deplorable living conditions, ignore their demands for improvements to their living conditions, only pay attention to them when they act bananas but also exploit their attempts to get any kind of attention by acting wacky. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Truly a chilling tale for a day of misfortune.
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One of the most surprising things in this video (as opposed to disturbing, shocking, etc.) is that Grandier's mustache in "The Devils" was not made up for the movie, that was actually how he looked. Like he used his powers to look ahead through time and space, to precisely 1981 and said "YES".
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Geeze, I'm surprised they didn't decide to just leave things alone. Apparently every single big name demon was busy at one convent. That should be a boon for the world from a utilitarian perspective. Ashtoreth isn't gonna cause large scale mayhem, we know she's bottled up n some nun's left hip.
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What a wise and empathetic closing! I have never thought about the witch trials as more than horrible HOAs getting the power to kill their neighbors. You gave me new angles to think about. Thank you.
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I have watched every single one of your videos over the past year! Thank you so much for putting this out for free and giving me the opportunity to truly expand my mind. As a victim of a cult, these have really helped me view religion in a more positive light.
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Excellent as always
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The "particularly john the baptist" line made me pause the video to laugh
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Justin, you're a genuine rock star of the academy. This was one continuous guitar solo of irresistibly fascinating, formidably rigorous scholarship. You. Fucking. Rock.
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I luv how you present this with tongue in cheek
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These "treatments" make the memetic phrase "You've got ghosts in your blood, you should do cocaine about it" feel uncomfortably close to being on the nose.
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5:10 -Random thought, but the way she saw this "priest" more and more, then found his demeanour and appearance to both gradually become more sinister reminds me a bit of Alexandra David-Neel's description of her experience with "tulpamancy" - Where she first saw her tulpa in the form of a fat jolly monk, who she saw more and more - then eventually he became more thin and sinister looking as he fell out of her control.
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Thank you Justin, these are some of the hardest episodes to watch, but all the more important because of it. While it's a rather modern phrase, "The cruelty is the point" seems to be the core driving factor behind it all. This is collective storytelling with human abuse and sacrifice at the center. Thank you for laying it all out in your way.
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Baha, I always love to see what the auto-captions here on yt do with supernatural, occult, and esoteric words and this video made me chuckle greatly as BALL BREATH was a repeat offender here :) Thanks again for your great content, even if captions don't understand.
