‘The Witch’ (Witch History, Myths, Baba Yaga and Satan as the Goat ‘Black Phillip’)

In The Witch, Writer/director Robert Eggers integrates multiple Western witchcraft myths, including fairy-tale imagery, a fear of the woods, the Baba Yaga, a witch from Russian folklore and Satan as a goat.

0:00 - Intro
0:14 - The Puritans
0:38 - Witch Hysteria and Samuel's disappearance
2:37 - Witch Flying Ointment
5:21 - Why Fat From Inf*nts?
5:56 - The Legend of Baba Yaga
7:19 - Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches)
8:44 - Satan As a Goat (Black Phillip)

Sources:

https://russiapedia.rt.com/of-russian-origin/baba-yaga/
https://www.rbth.com/arts/330441-how-john-wick-got-baba-yaga-wrong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witch_(2015_film)
https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/movies/the-witch-a-holy-terror-set-in-1630/
https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/bible-study/why-satan-shows-up-as-a-goat-in-scripture.html
https://slate.com/culture/2016/02/goats-and-the-devil-origins-black-phillip-in-the-witch-isnt-alone.html
https://www.belladonnasbotanicals.com/flying-ointments
https://guides.library.uab.edu/c.php?g=1048546&p=7609204
https://dra.american.edu/islandora/object/1011capstones%3A96/datastream/PDF/view
https://www.grunge.com/216412/the-legend-of-baba-yaga-explained/?utm_campaign=clip
https://screenrant.com/witch-movie-black-phillip-goat-attack-ralph-ineson/

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