Purif is distraught when her lover is betrothed to another. When she summons the old ways to curse him, her erratic behavior is interpreted as demonic possession, and the villagers turn against her with physical and sexual violence.
Daliah Lavi
as Purificata
Frank Wolff
as Antonio
Anna Maria Aveta
as Sister Angela
Tiziana Casetti
as
Dario Dolci
as Don Tommaso
Franca Mazzoni
as The Mother Superior
María Teresa Orsini
as Nun
Rossana Rovere
as Antonio's Wife
Maria Ciriello
as (uncredited)
Giovanni Cristofanelli
as Father Tomasso (uncredited)
Francesca Farinacci
as (uncredited)
Luca Pascarella
as (uncredited)
