Isn't there some sort of anti-tradition which implies that girls become "possessed" by dybbuks in order to speak their minds freely, without the usual Orthodox restrictions?
I don't actually know any of the sociology around dybbuks, just the folklore. But that interpretation is not out of keeping with some presentations of Ansky's story—it is most interesting to me when there's desire from the living side as well as the dead.
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Date: 2009-01-28 03:20 am (UTC)I don't actually know any of the sociology around dybbuks, just the folklore. But that interpretation is not out of keeping with some presentations of Ansky's story—it is most interesting to me when there's desire from the living side as well as the dead.