:thumbup: I'm not sure it that is the impression I conveyed? At any rate, Totally agreed about people not using movies as research material. Although as a researcher and writer I also know that when I am researching and aiming towards writing a fictional account that is occult-themed, you can bet that my valid and legitimate research goes into the movie or story.creepyhollows wrote:In general you should avoid using any type of media (movie, TV, fiction book) as research material. Movies are meant to entertain, be over the top, be completely false or very loosely based on fact. You're not going to glean much useful information in using a movie as a source of assistance.
The movie when I watched it raised interesting topics for discussion, as occult-themed and paranormal movies may tend to do, if they are any good. I also caught a distinct occult reference in it which is linked with the dark lord so I take it this movie was made with him in mind and that is a little clue within. Although there were more obvious clues which made that pretty apparent.
Sean, thanks for passing on the oral tradition from your Irish ancestors! That makes a lot of sense.
Ed, I don't know, I just feel something is off but I am undecided either way, about my sineater. The info I got from him is potentially valid, yet I don't know how any sineater could be a happy seeming entity, even if enlightened, most sineaters described are quite weighed down by the work they do.
Also mainly the proof is in the pudding and I don't feel any evidence of my sins having been eaten.
Here's a quote from Magnolia in another thread about human sineaters:
http://creepyhollows.com/phpBB3/viewtop ... 46&p=50706The Sin-Eaters of the Catholic, Protestant and other similarly Christian faiths are humans who have received DIVINE presence to be able to consume the sins of the those they are divinely led to. Of course sometimes "divine" meant by order of the church (in most cases the Catholic church). However, the name "sin-eater" is, again, one of those all-encompassing monikers meant to help you immediately understand the divine human or the entity of other faiths that eats, devours or removes sin. There are different entities from different cultures that perfom the same task that are known by different names but are all essentially sin eaters. There is a lot to the sin-eater and like an onion you can peel away the layers for hours and each layer reveals more and more.
I think, again thanks to Hollywood, the most commonly known sin-eater is the one of Catholic-based faith. The actual texts on sin-eaters kept by the Catholic church reveals that sin-eaters divinely possessed for that purpose follows bloodlines and is generational dating back thousands of years.
One common thread among them all is that they are on the lighter side of Dark Arts.
I noticed that an elder there was also reflecting on a movie which had a sineater in it, I haven't heard of the movie though it sounds a bit interesting.