| 1. Short video
clip about Dôjôji
2. Presentation
of student masks
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What is concealed? What
is revealed?
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How does it feel to wear
the masks?
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How are good and evil
the same thing, different only in appearance?
3. Reading
Yamamba, Dancing with the Mountain Witch
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How do you imagine the
dance and song expressing the mountain witch?
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What kind of pain, what
kind of attachments does the mountain witch embody?
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The short story, "Smile
of a Mountain Witch," describes the life of a woman who embodies witchy-ness.
What traits can be described as witchy?
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Why does she yearn for
a mountain world?
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Is the mountain witch
powerful or pathetic, or can she be the embodiment of non-duality?
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Video clip: CARRIE
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What witchy female powers
does she embody and deploy?
4.
Reading the Serpent, Firing the Dôjôji
Bell
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What transforms the girl
into a serpent?
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What causes the serpent
to destroy the priest?
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Why does the serpent return
to the scene in a different form at the outset of the play?
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Can the serpent control
her transformation?
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Video clip: The
Exorcist
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How is the transformation
of girl to devil created here
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