Thinking about Demonic Women

 
1.  Short video clip about Dôjôji

2.  Presentation of student masks

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