Ergot was the first thing I thought of while watching this movie.

That is a good interpretation and I would agree to that view of the film. But in the end I did not like the supernatural stuff that was explicitly shown (the red hooded young witch, the black phillip / devil, ect. - that could have been much better it it was like the disturbing scenes with the mother and the raven - stuff where you realy see both sides, the halucinations and the dry rough and disturbing reality).

What about the ending where the witches are flying around?

I feel this is a pretty decent film that showed real supernatural activities... in the diegesis of the film, that is.

I would agree. But the whole thing kicked off when the baby was taken. No rotten food can explain that, or wild animal.

@OddRob said:

I would agree. But the whole thing kicked off when the baby was taken. No rotten food can explain that, or wild animal.

well maybe that was a thing that just happened, like tragic stuff in the wild, no explaination ever given. And he humand, foreign to this wildernis just seek desperatly for explainations that would calm their grief about that tragic event.

@Schnatterick said:

@OddRob said:

I would agree. But the whole thing kicked off when the baby was taken. No rotten food can explain that, or wild animal.

well maybe that was a thing that just happened, like tragic stuff in the wild, no explaination ever given. And he humand, foreign to this wildernis just seek desperatly for explainations that would calm their grief about that tragic event.

Umm he was killed and turned into a paste by the witches. It shows it in the film if Im remembering that right. He didnt die from natural causes or an accident. He was taken and thats what starts the spiral down fall of the family. I mean they werent exactly in the right frame of mind to begin with but that was just the catalyst.

@OddRob said:

@Schnatterick said:

@OddRob said:

I would agree. But the whole thing kicked off when the baby was taken. No rotten food can explain that, or wild animal.

well maybe that was a thing that just happened, like tragic stuff in the wild, no explaination ever given. And he humand, foreign to this wildernis just seek desperatly for explainations that would calm their grief about that tragic event.

Umm he was killed and turned into a paste by the witches. It shows it in the film if Im remembering that right. He didnt die from natural causes or an accident. He was taken and thats what starts the spiral down fall of the family. I mean they werent exactly in the right frame of mind to begin with but that was just the catalyst.

that is true, we see that, doen't mean it happens actually but true that is unexplained