Max Ernst's The Rooster's Laughter

Thursday
element: Blackness
The Rooster's Laughter

• woman coming across a rooster
• woman dies and woman’s grieving husband is accompanied by the rooster, he starts to grow feathers
• the woman is buried and the husband becomes more rooster-like, other men are becoming roosters too when woman at funeral takes off her clothes?
• two rooster-men talking in a crypt, killing women?
• another woman is killed
• servant woman trying to keep roosters out of their quarters
• the turned-rooster man tells other women the sad news of the other woman’s death
• he then stalks the two women he encountered before