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  2. Jun 29, 2024 · Why Did Agnes Kill the Boy? Now, we come to our initial scene, where the unnamed woman throws an innocent child to death. Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala have made the film on the intriguingly cruel practice that was seen in 17th-18th century German-speaking central Europe and Scandinavia.

  3. Jun 27, 2024 · Before leaving her at Wolf and his mother’s mercy, Agnes’ brother gave her a finger that he hacked off of the woman who was executed for killing a baby. Maybe it’s a superstition that compels Agnes to keep the severed finger under her bed, hoping it’ll bless her with a child.

  4. Perhaps the child was killed to hide Agnes' pregnancy. It may be to protect the reputation of the nuns in the convent. It may be to get revenge on the man who fathered the...

  5. ‘The Devil’s Bath’ Ending Explained & Film Summary: Did Agnes Kill The Boy? Adapting historian Kathy Stuart ’s empathetic research on a strange suicide ritual that was not-too-shockingly prevalent in 18th-century Central Europe makes all the sense in the world.

  6. Sep 5, 2023 · The baby girl was found dead in a wastebasket in the closet of the room of Agnes, a young sister. The Mother Superior looked in the closet because there was blood all over the room and...

  7. Jun 30, 2024 · After hearing the priest and seeing Lenz’s discarded body, Agnes is afraid to kill herself because of her fear of eternal damnation. Instead, she does what the woman at the beginning of the film did – she kills a child. Such an act wasn’t uncommon in Europe at the time.

  8. The play’s climax comes with Agnes’s admission that she killed her baby, believing it to be “a mistake,” an accusation that she had on numerous occasions been made to bear by her mother.