In Pagan beliefs and traditions, much of worship is connected to nature, the elements, and the self. Manon represents the more primal aspects of human instinct, and therefore is most interested in bolstering facets of a devotee who invokes for more self-serving reasons.
In the movie, a love spell is successful, Bonnie's scars heal, Rochelle is able to get revenge on her racist, high school bullies. This speaks to Manon's interest in helping acolytes get their desires fully realized, and empower them to overcome adversity through occasionally problematic means. While Manon certainly backs their desires and assists them, it seems crucial for the witches to solve their own problems.
However, Manon's role in The Craft is also a cautionary tale. When the witches start abusing their powers, they lose their connection with Manon and their magic suffers. Because of the content and its connection to witchcraft and Pagan traditions , an on-set coordinator was hired to ensure not only authenticity, but also establish that everything was being done safely. There was a concern that, if they wrote an actual deity into the script, audience members might take to performing the rituals and invoking something more powerful than they could handle, with potentially disastrous results.
The Craft is reasonably respectful of Pagan faith and Wiccan practices, and while Manon certainly isn't real, it provides a snapshot of a religion that goes outside the norm of the commonly used demonic possession and exorcisms within the horror genre. Jack Wilhelmi is the horror features editor at Screen Rant, and has been with the site since Fairuza Balk is Wiccan in real life and eventually purchased the pagan store she frequented to do research for her role as Nancy.
Balk is no longer the owner, but the store is still open today. The girls used actual Wiccan rituals. She consulted on the elements used in the movie and modeled them after actual rites. During the invocation of the spirit scene on the beach a bunch of spooky shit went down.
A colony of bats appeared and lingered on set and waves rose up and extinguished the candles used for the scene. It was a very strange thing.
The god the girls invoke, Manon, is made up. Manon later appeared in real books, however. However the name Manon does resemble the name of an actual Gaelic god, Mananan. Mananan is god of the sea, invoking his spirit would have made actual sense in the movie as afterward Nancy has the power to walk on water and is offered the gift of sea creatures.
Another actual spiritual event happened during filming. We walked up the beach in the dark, away from the lights, to a cove where I Dedicated her and presented her to all four quarters. They brought in over 3, bugs, rats and snakes to film the scene where Sarah is tormented by the girls in her home including a boa constrictor that was more than ten feet long. Apparently, "professional Wicca consultant" is a job and other unexpected facts about the production of this '90s movie.
Several odd and kind of creepy things disrupted the filming of this Invocation scene, in which the girls are using actual Wiccan invocations:. Director Andrew Fleming hired Wicca consultant Pat Devin — High Priestess of Covenant of the Goddess — to help with the project and she had considerable influence on shaping details of the narrative. Devin made sure the spells would be common enough that they could be found in basic books on Wicca, and she even wrote some of the chants, consulting with her two Covens even got permission from one of the High Priestesses for one.
Robin Tunney wore a wig during filming because she had just finished shooting Empire Records , for which she went bald. Devin thought it best to use a fictional name so as to avoid offending the Wiccan community and prevent fans of the film from re-creating the Invocation scene, which depending on what you believe could be dangerous.
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