FREN 1177 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Norse Mythology, Catharism, Black Death
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Christian faith filled with superstitions and parallel beliefs that shouldn"t necessarily be there movie: Village priest knows what people believe in movie but won"t do anything about it. Mothers with sick children believe their child has been stolen by the fairies. When elda uses juice to take warts away from monk, by burying leaves after it becomes magic. In order to prove that he is a good christian he takes communion. Fairy beliefs and pagan superstitions have nothing to do with devil. Became said that those who lived bad lives would end up on the hunt. Most villagers believe in god and the devil. When going through the forest means getting attacked by wolves and seeing shadows that could be anything, people weren"t as interested of the devil. But people were still afraid of supernatural creatures. Theodoric- represented as a hunter as well as a half animal being with a stag head.
