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Hindele In Singer's The Black Wedding

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Living a cursed life, Singer’s “The Black Wedding” follows Hindele—the protagonist—who tries to avoid evil throughout her young life, but once her parents die, her life is engulfed in evil and horror. Forced to marry, she discovers that her husband is actually an “evil spirit.” She believes that her husband is the “devil” because he is cruel to her, tears off her clothes, martyr[s] her, abuse[s] her, and then shame[s] her. Her husband also rapes her and she becomes pregnant with another “devil.” Hindele could see this devil growing inside of her belly as though it were a “cobweb.” The demon inside her “ate her flesh, sucked her blood, scratched her with his claws, [and] bit her with his pointed teeth.” Hindele despises this demon inside of

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