William S. Burroughs – Häxan – Witchcraft Through The Ages

William S. Burroughs – Häxan – Witchcraft Through The AgesLabel: Sotpackan ‎– sp0067Format: CD, AlbumCountry: ItalyReleased: 2014Style: Spoken Word, Free Jazz, Avant-garde Jazz Celebrating it’s 100th anniversary in 2022, Benjamin Christensen’s legendary 1922 film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious; instead it’s a witches’ brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous. Featuring grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath, it was censored in many countries at that time for its graphic depictions of the occult, torture, nudity, and sexual…