#Pagen culrs full

We’re talking human sacrifice, ritual mutilation, and the perceived barbarity of other beliefs. In that sense, “Pagan horror” deals with Christian fears of those religions. In general, though, “Pagan” has come to mean polytheism and nature worship within Christian-dominated cultures, especially in rural and remote areas. Historically, it’s been used to refer to any non-Christian belief. Get over it.) These same folks were also called “hellenes,” “gentiles,” and “heathens.” Christians, especially urban ones, associated them with ritual sacrifice and derided their beliefs, regarding Paganism as the religion of peasants.

#Pagen culrs full

This is a listicle, not a full on deep-dive. (Mind you, we’re going with Wikipedia here. Let’s start with “Pagan,” a slur first applied by early Christians to describe polytheistic Romans. Paganism, Witchcraft, Satanism, Folklore, & What the Hell’s the Difference?

For the good thinky talk without the jargon. But Häxan, we decided, isn’t really Pagan horror so much as Satanic witch horror, and in general, we’re a bit short on good Pagan horror to suggest, so instead, we’re going to tell you about some other great folk horror we came across.įirst, though, being a curious reader, you might ask, “What’s the difference?” And that’s our chance to indulge every academic’s favorite pastime: making a definition no one cares about-except you, curious reader.

And we explained why you definitely should watch the excellent hybrid essay/docudrama Häxan (1922), but why you should definitely not watch the offensively bad hatchet job recut from the 1970s of a different title that we won’t name because you shouldn’t watch it. We picked apart the perspective of a man so good at playing the victim he finally got to be one in Midsommar (2019). We took you into the strange fusion of literal cut-throat Capitalism with Pagan rituals of human sacrifice portrayed in Kill List (2011). We brought you a post on The Wicker Man (1973), challenging the idea of Sgt. In our search for Pagan horror, we came across a lot of Satanic cults and witches, as well as some stories and creatures from old folktales, but relatively little in the way of what we would call Pagan horror. We wanted to bring you a list of good Pagan horror we didn’t get to talk about last month.