Excerpt from Häxan (1922), a Swedish-Danish film (referred to in English as The Witches or Witchcraft Through the Ages) — a curious and groundbreaking mix of documentary and silent horror cinema directed by Benjamin Christensen. Whereas most films of the period were literary adaptations, Christensen’s take was unique, basing his film upon non-fiction works, mainly the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th-century treatise on witchcraft he found in a Berlin bookshop, as well as a number of other manuals, i