Quote:In the second part of this series we investigate a book which is purported to be a religious text from a witch-cult in Italy; discover how pre-Christian festivals influenced folk horror; and find out why a murder in rural England inspired one of the first folk horror films.
Films/Literature/Events referenced:
Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches by Charles Leland
St John's Eve by Nikolai Gogol Viy (1967) directed by Konstantin Ershov and Georgiy Kropachyov
The Murder of Charles Walton Robin Redbreast (1970) written by John Griffith Bowen
Hypnogoria podcast episodes on the murder of Charles Walton: https://www.hypnogoria.com/h_quinton....
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell