The Slumber Party Massacre | Amy Holden Jones | 1982

Beware the Beautiful Witch - Power O’Malley

“Now is the time. This is the hour. Ours is the magic. Ours is the power.” 

WOMEN WHO LEVITATE: A HORROR PHENOMENON

The Craft (1996), Hereditary (2018), American Horror Story: Coven (2013), Saint Maud (2019), The VVitch (2015), Jennifer’s Body (2009), The Conjuring (2013), The Exorcist (1973)

“Female levitators are often maligned as ridiculous, dangerous characters, often by men. This is a very old trait, but was solidified and given shape by the influential Jesuit theologian Martin Delrio, who published ‘Magical Investigations’ in 1599 – 1600. His book popularized the idea that demon spirits could possess or inhabit a female human body. It also suggested how to identify and track them. For the witch-hunters and storytellers of early modern Europe, the levitating, flying witch was a figure of grotesque femininity.” 

The air itself is filled with monsters.

You ever put your arms out and spin really, really fast? Well, that’s what love is like. It makes your heart race. It turns the world upside down. But if you’re not careful, if you don’t keep your eyes on something still, you can lose your balance. You can’t see what’s happening to the people around you. You can’t see that you’re about to fall.