mourningmaybells reblogged
Also immediately after that bit, Karras was thinking about homosexual love facilitated by possession… WHICH COULD MEAN NOTHING
#Honestly a lot of same sex attraction used possession as a scapegoat… the nuns of Loudun… Sister Benedetta Carlini… and those are#just the Catholic ‘scary stories’ that were misunderstood moments of history idk about everyone else#The nuns had sex with eachother because ‘the devil made them’ do it and sister benedetta said it was a male angel possessing her#which then became a demon#the loudun movie adaptation skip the same sex orgies but benedetta movie at least has her lover#And both were already in on the fact it wasn’t possession even though it would’ve probably been showed more if it had been#Thank goodness they didn’t turn this into the conjuring#The exorcist by William Peter Blatty