A bruxaria em Häxan: provocações, clichês e terror a representação da mulher.

The article proposes a reexamination, based on methods of history and art theory, in the 1922 Swedish-Danish documentary Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages, written and directed by the film director, screenwriter and writer. Danish actor Benjamin Christensen (1879 - 1959). There was an intention to explore how the relationships between understanding witchcraft and how women are viewed as witches and how images and paintings appear without film - including Compendium Malecarum (1608) and painting by the artist David Teniers " (1610 -1690). They will be detailed as stories of Anna (Karen Winther), a young woman, and Maria (Maren Pedersen), a bad lady, a matter of stereotypes The article proposes a reexamination, based on methods of history and art theory, in the 1922 Swedish-Danish documentary Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages, written and directed by the film director, screenwriter and writer. Danish actor Benjamin Christensen (1879 - 1959). There was an intention to explore how the relationships between understanding witchcraft and how women are viewed as witches and how images and paintings appear without film - including Compendium Malecarum (1608) and painting by the artist David Teniers " (1610 -1690). Will be detailed as stories of Anna (Karen Winther), a young woman, and Maria (Maren Pedersen), a bad lady, a matter of stereotypes that both guide the witch's representations in art. Finally, the appearance of hysteria as a justification for the symptoms and reactions of women accused of witchcraft was problematized. It was understood, after thorough analysis, that the subtle "forgetting" of the film should be by virtue of which Häxan faces the genre of documentary, with historical artistic information and scientific as a reference, while satirizing and fantasy about the subject, its aspects and its characters. Anyway, the film is an excellent to know not only the iconographer of the witch, but also as visions and studies on the subject in the early twentieth century