Review: Of Love and Other Demons

Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is the tale of a little girl named Sierva Maria. This poor Rapunzel is suspected to be demonic and possessed. For the medical science at that era is insufficient to explain what she has, people demand cruel treatment and exorcism that in the end gone wrong. Here we see blind faith conspired with irrationality getting their way to make the worst of it.

'Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be things of God that we do not understand.'

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