Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.
This movie contains 4 potentially triggering events.
The entire movie is a "documentary" about witchcraft, which is by nature hate speech since all of the re-enactments of "real" witchcraft are inspired by the hate speech in the Malleus Maleficarum written by Heinrich Kramer
There is a scene where a woman gives birth to a demon - It's not explicit (a person in a demon costume crawls from under a blanket which covers the entire lower half of a woman)