TheDevilsofLoudun is a 1952 non-fiction novel by Aldous Huxley. It is a historical narrative of supposed demonic possession, religious fanaticism, sexual...
TheLoudun possessions, also known as theLoudun possessed affair (French: affaire des possédées de Loudun), was a notorious witchcraft trial that took...
Marquis of Ancre. Loudun was also the site of mass hysteria surrounding the supposed mass possession of Ursuline nuns by theDevil in 1634 (see Loudun possessions)...
Catholic priest who was burned at the stake after being convicted of witchcraft, following the events ofthe so-called "Loudun possessions". Most modern commentators...
Many a Summer Dies the Swan (1939) Time Must Have a Stop (1944) Ape and Essence (1948) TheDevilsofLoudun (1952) The Genius and the Goddess (1955) Island...
colleagues, doctors Abram Hoffer and John Smythies. In the epilogue to his novel TheDevilsofLoudun, published earlier that year, Huxley had written that...
account, TheDevilsofLoudun, on a reported case of mass hysteria and demonic possession that allegedly took place at a French convent in the seventeenth...
his death. By the end of his life, Huxley was widely acknowledged as one ofthe foremost intellectuals of his time. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize...
birds. The film was based on Aldous Huxley's 1952 book TheDevilsofLoudun. Louis XIII appears in the 2002 Doctor Who audio drama The Church and the Crown...
fragments ofthe Cello Concerto and TheDevilsofLoudun. Writing about The Exorcist, the film critic for The New Republic wrote that 'even the music is...
Episodes have explored the topics of serial killers, cults, conspiracy theories, UFO sightings, ghosts, cryptids, the occult, and readings of fan-submitted creepypastas...
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, also translated as Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (Polish: Tren pamięci ofiar Hiroszimy), is a musical composition...
present at the exorcism ofthe possessed nuns ofLoudun. In 1635 he left a sceptical account ofthe proceedings. Before the English Civil War, Killigrew...
"Polymorphia" and a portion of "TheDevilsofLoudun" was used in The Exorcist (1973). For his analogue synthesizer score, Schmidt used the following equipment:...
Huxley's book TheDevilsofLoudun and using material from John Whiting's play TheDevils, it starred Oliver Reed as a priest who stands in the way of a corrupt...
For Sadler's Wells, he produced The DevilsofLoudun in 1973. At the Metropolitan Opera (where he was Director of Production from 1974 to 1981, then Production...
The Dream of Jacob, also referred to as The Awakening of Jacob (Polish: Przebudzenie Jakuba), is a composition by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki...
book by Aldous Huxley published in 1941. It is a biography of François Leclerc du Tremblay, the French monk who served as advisor to Cardinal de Richelieu...
and 8 each of violas, cellos and basses) composed by the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki in 1961. The piece was commissioned by the North German...
premiered in 1970 and 1971. "Jutrznia" in this context refers to "Matins ofthe Passion of Jesus" in Eastern Orthodox rites (Polish: "Jutrznia Męki Pańskiej"...