Hexenkinder

The movie recalls children who suffered mental and physical harm both during the last century, particularly in religious orphanages, and during the time of early modernperiod witch-hunts. It shows that the mindsets and behavioural patterns of both time periods are more alike than one might think.

• witch
• child abuse
• nun
• orphanage
• switzerland
• beating
• religion
• torture
• orphan
• catholic
• evil nun
• roman catholic church
• demonic possession
• institutionalization
• witch hunt
• 17th century
• 1950s
• 1960s
• government witch hunt