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The files show the same healer targeted twice: first by Nazi researchers treating the goddesses as a witch cult, then by the communist StB treating them as backward, superstitious enemies of socialist order. Official records turn out to hold both the evidence of the crime and the regime's distorted version of the victim.
The goddesses held an ambivalent role in the village. People ostracized them, feared them and later denounced them, yet came secretly for cures, love charms, curses and advice that the church and state could not supply. That dependence gave the healers real social power, and it also made them vulnerable, because anyone they had served, or refused, could turn informer.
Dora's ethnographic interest in the goddesses mirrors earlier outsiders, such as Nazi researchers and state officials, who collected their knowledge while treating them as objects of study. The novel suggests that documenting a vulnerable community can feed its persecution, since whoever controls the archive can reuse fieldwork for purposes the researcher never intended. The researcher has to ask whom the record will eventually serve.