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weirdlookindog · 8 months

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Mirja Mane in The Witch (Noita palaa elämään, 1954).

#noita palaa elämään #the witch #mirja mane #1954 #1950s movies #roland af hällström #horror

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rhetthammersmithhorror · 8 months

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two cents

View counts would be great.

On my art blog was a photo I took of a cloud that looked like a dog. It had over 200,000 notes. I always wondered what the actual view count was.

But the dog cloud pic had a freakishly high note count compared to my other posts.

Lots of people are just browsing without signing in or creating an account. Relying on notes alone can give a false impression of low engagement.

So, if you feel your note counts are low, just remember it doesn't necessarily mean people aren't seeing your stuff.

Also, the right-click save feature should be deactivated. Lots of people would hate that, but it should be done.

Anyway, like I said, two cents and all, carry on.

#view counts #Noita palaa elämään

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soulsanitarium · 1 year

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Finland 🇫🇮 🎥 ”Noita palaa elämään” The Witch (actually Resurrection of the witch) Directed by R.af Hällström 1952.

🎭The film is based on the play of Mika Waltari (1945) who studied the subject also in the other novels. Waltari is one of the most loved writers in Finland. According to Rajala, Waltari got the idea for the play from a newspaper article about a grave found in Denmark.

I believe this bog body may have been the so-called Elling -woman. He had read a book about 🇳🇴 witchprocesses & also studied the subject with limited scientific data in Helsinki Uni. 🧟‍♀️ He referred in to Malleus Maleficarum in the play as well as psychoanalysis and behavioral sciences.

Waltari studied theology when he was young and he remained as a philosophical thinker in almost all of his works. But he struggled also with his mental health and had a huge breakdown just before writing his masterpiece Sinuhe the Egyptian and soon after that, this play. So he recovered well but life was not easy for him or his family.

🪦Synopsis: The archaeologist couple, the painter and owner of the mansion, and his son try to find an explanation for the riddle of the girl who came to the manor and who has lost her memory. At the same time, the ancient grave of the witch's in the marsh has been excavated. The villagers fear that the witch who was executed in ancient times have now returned to revenge.

😕Unfortunately, at the suggestion of one of the Theater directors, writer agreed to change the end of the finished play to a different ending. He had done this before and he probably was also thinking that the play would have a short life, if he did not listen the advice. IIWW was just over and the crowd wanted something light, just like we have seen after the Covid-time.

In the original play, the witch was buried in the swamp and returned to retaliate, and then disappeared. But the film also has this altered ending, which turns it into a comedy. Everything has been just a dream and a misunderstanding. Supernatural and witchcraft was too much after the war and news about holocaust.

✉️Waltari was also familiar with psychoanalytic literature. He wrote to his friend: “Finally I have a religion, I believe that God and Satan, heaven and hell, are in the heart of every human being, from which he has projected them into the outside world.”

Quote: Birgit, the witch in the play says to the scientist Hannu: ”You wanted to get to know the witches and the devils, but you found yourself.” This is the main idea of the play. 😈

💸The film was sold to Germany and the U. S., but ended up on the sleazy theaters, as a Scandinavian erotica. It has also been exploited to B-movie ”Naked witch”.

Waltari’s play has not been translated to English, but I recommend his “Sinuhe the Egyptian” (mummy-theme can be seen also in current). The Hollywood version of the Sinuhe is pretty bad.

Ⓒsoulsanitarium