Grotesques — Ongoing
As related in Huxley’s The Devils of Loudun, the nuns of a convent in provincial France of the XVII century started behaving in outrageous manner out of the blue. According to the official explanations offered by several sources — for the time, that is — a bunch of demons had taken possession of the nuns’ bodies. Exorcisms were performed for years on the wretched ladies and the whole convent became the setting for a grotesque freakshow, complete with endless coups de théâtre and clapping spectators. The Loudun’s demons were depicted as entities with different...
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