It does so not only through its lonely landscapes, but also through its hand-drawn, black-and-white aesthetic showing a bygone age, and its use of the Romansh language, which is spoken by around 40,000 people, mostly in the Swiss canton of GraubГјnden or Grischun.

Mundaun drives home this intimacy and isolation, distancing us from the here and now. This world has a sense of intimacy and closeness, but also of closed-off-ness and isolation. Mundaun and the stories that inspired it grew from a world where the lofty ideas of religion have seeped deep into the soil, where any attempt to disentangle superstition from religion must fail, and where the devil is a part of daily life and may be encountered in the guise of an old man on a lonely alp. Mundaun may not have demon spiders, but it shares a preoccupation with many of the traits of folk stories, like its Christian rural setting, the concerns of common people and a deal with the devil, a love for weird and grotesque imagery, as well as an interest in the consequences of past sins for future generations. ThereвЂ™s much more to it, but you can already see the echoes. Christine is eventually turned into the black spider and wreaks havoc until one woman imprisons the spider in a window post and seals it with a plug, where it remained, waiting, for hundreds of years. The agonising growth takes on the shape of a black spider, which in turn summons an army of tiny deadly spiders terrorising the village. When Christine and the other villagers try to deny the devil his due by hurriedly baptising every child as soon as it has been born, the spot where the devil kissed ChristineвЂ™s cheek starts to swell and grow. 'Mundaun may not have demon spiders, but it shares a preoccupation with many of the traits of folk stories.' The devil then seals the deal with a kiss on ChristineвЂ™s cheek. The story centers on the headstrong peasant woman Christine, who agrees to give up the next newborn child in the village to the devil in exchange for his help. The Black Spider, written by Swiss author Jeremias Gotthelf and published in 1842, is sometimes considered a foundational text of weird fiction and has been cited as a major inspiration for Mundaun by its creator Michel Ziegler. And in the classic horror novella Die Schwarze Spinne - The Black Spider - he comes to the rescue of the serfs of a small village subjected to the harsh whims and demands of their lord, using his dark magic to perform the backbreaking labour that would have left the fields untended and thus have led to the starvation of the whole community. According to the legends surrounding the TeufelsbrГјcke or devilвЂ™s bridge of the SchГ¶llenen Gorge, he built a daring bridge after all human efforts proved in vain. In Mundaun, the devil buries advancing enemy soldiers under an avalanche. You apparently can get a lot of things done with a little help from your infernal friend.

ItвЂ™s the basic blueprint for many folk tales. Left with few other options, the people agree reluctantly, then attempt to trick the adversary by taking advantage of the vague terms of the deal, so instead of the soul of a human or an unbaptised child, they fob off the devil with a goat or other animal. That small favour, of course, is usually an unbaptised soul. He can provide an easy way out of an unsolvable dilemma, in exchange for a small favour to be repaid at a later date. illustration with text overlay, Robert Downey Jr.ItвЂ™s folk horror that embraces traditional aesthetics and themes that modern games often reject wholesale: the loneliness of alpine landscapes, the centrality of a rural and simple kind of Christianity stripped of all theological intricacies, as well as old folk tales, beliefs and customs.ДЄt the heart of all this weirdness lies a very old and familiar story: the devil appears to simple folk in desperate need and proposes a tempting deal.

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