The Disney Channel will premiere a new cartoon – The Owl House – on Friday, January 10, that promises to introduce young viewers to a world of demons and witchcraft.
According to Disney, “The series follows self-assured teenage girl Luz, who discovers a portal to another realm where humans are not well-liked, and she must disguise herself in order to fit in at witch school.”
Disney describes that realm as a “Demon town,” where Luz takes up residence with Eda the Owl Lady, “the most powerful witch on the Boiling Iles.”
Luz declares, “Someday, I’m going to be just like her.”
“The original pitch (for the show) was ‘girl hangs out with witch in hell,’” voice actor Alex Hirsch told Newsweek.com.
The show’s art director, Ricky Cometa, explained
that when the show’s creator, Dana Terrace, first approached him, “she
said that ‘we're trying to make this demon realm a part of Disney.’”'
“We really wanted to make this demon realm feel like home, and just had to figure out how to do it," said Cometa.
The writers room for the show is “full of books on witchcraft,
witches and spells to take inspiration from,” according to the Newsweek
piece.
The visual design of the show is inspired by various European
painters such as Hieronymus Bosch, who was best known for his
surrealistic depictions of hell.
Show creator Terrace, who first became acquainted with religious
painters while growing up in Catholic school, said Bosch’s twisted takes
on angels and demons would make for a “cool show in that art style.”
Last month, controversy arose
over when major retailers such as Walmart, Amazon, and Barnes &
Noble offered a book inviting young children to learn how to summon
demons.
Written for 5- to 10-year-olds, A Children’s Book of Demons directs kids to “conjure gentle demons by writing their sigils, which serve as ‘a phone number’ straight to the spirit.”
“As ridiculous as the ‘demons’ contained in the book may be, there is
nothing innocent or fun about even pretending to summon evil spirits,”
noted Elizabeth Johnston, aka Activist Mommy, on her blog. “But who is to say it is pretend? The spirit world is real and is no laughing matter.”
“It is a sign of the degeneration of our society that making use of
demons is considered acceptable, and it manifests ignorance of their
malice and desire to do us harm,” renowned exorcist, Fr. Chad Ripperger,
told LifeSiteNews. “Books such as these ought to be avoided by parents
and children, as they pose a possible opening to demons’ influence in
their lives, which will only end in affliction and suffering.”
“Parents would be well warned that it is not something ‘silly,’ but
contrary to the proper formation of their children,” he continued.
“Opening up children to this at a young age will often place the child
in a mindset that diabolic influence of demons in his life is not
something serious or to be avoided.”
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