Comments on: Häxan (Haxan: The Witch) (1922) https://thegoodsreviews.com/haxan-1922/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=haxan-1922 Watching and asking: Is It Good? Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:46:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Dan S https://thegoodsreviews.com/haxan-1922/#comment-43 Tue, 23 Aug 2022 14:22:44 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=5433#comment-43 In reply to Hunter Allen.

According to Tybjerg’s commentary, the original source of this number is that one historian took an account of witch-burning in a specific village over a few years of hysteria, and extrapolated it across all of Europe for five centuries. Crazy stuff.

]]> By: Hunter Allen https://thegoodsreviews.com/haxan-1922/#comment-42 Tue, 23 Aug 2022 10:44:23 +0000 https://thegoodsreviews.com/?p=5433#comment-42 Sorry, but it just sticks out so starkly, that somebody wrote an intertitle claiming that if you were a woman you basically had about a 20% chance of being burned as witch if you lived in Europe between the years 1300 and 1800. That’s some *champion* innumeracy.

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