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-I guess you knew that?
-No. But I have a strange feeling...
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That somebody already told me
about it--Or something similar.
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I can't--can't remember.
1:09:13
Well, that really got Sara's imagination
going. Earlier in the 19th century,
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The Markos woman had been expelled
from several european countries.
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She seemed to have something about her
which urged religious people to persecute her.
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She also wrote a number of books, and
I read that among the initiated,
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She went by the name "The Black Queen."
1:09:35
After she settled down here, she became
the subject of a lot of gossip.
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Nevertheless, she managed to put
her hands on a great deal of money,
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And she founded the Tam academy--
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At first a sort of school of
dance and occult sciences.
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But that didn't last long,
because in 1905,
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After being hounded and
cursed at for ten years,
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Madame Markos died in a fire.
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That's all there is, as far
as witchcraft is concerned.
1:10:03
The school was taken over by her favorite
pupil. The study of the occult was abandoned.
1:10:08
And soon the place became
the famous dance academy.
1:10:12
But what does it mean to be a witch?
1:10:17
Well, as a believer in the material
world and a psychiatrist to boot,
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I'm convinced that the current spread
of belief in magic and the occult...
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Is part of mental illness.
1:10:28
Bad luck isn't brought by broken
mirrors, but by broken minds.
1:10:35
Excuse me. Milius?
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Professor Milius can answer your
question better than I can.
1:10:40
He wrote a book called paranoia
or magic, and believe me,
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It's the final word on the subject.
1:10:45
Excuse me, Milius. If you don't mind,
I'd like you to meet a friend of mine.
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-Fraulein.
-She's interested in your favorite subject:
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Witches.
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Can you tell her something
about the mysterious?