- "The Kryta represents your enemy—and gives you complete power over him."
- ―Indiana Jones[src]
A kryta was a doll fashioned to resemble a person who felt in the area where the doll was damaged.
In 1935, Zalim Singh — under the influence of the Black Sleep of the Kali Ma — immobilized Indiana Jones by piercing a kryta in his likeness with a pointed pin and burning it during the archaeologist's fight with the Thuggee Chief Guard.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
The kryta in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is, for all intents and purposes, a voodoo doll, loosely based on those found in West Africa. The connection was made in the script through Indiana Jones who introduces the concept to Captain Blumburtt (and the audience) when they spot the effigy on a table before the Pankot Palace banquet. The scene never made it to the final cut of the film but was retained in the novelization of the film and its comic adaptation.[2][3]
Such a practice has never been a part of Hinduism. However, Jones's suspicions after experiencing the dinner's unusual menu that the palace inhabitants were something else was another exchange with Blumburtt that didn't reach cinema screens.
Appearances[]
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom novel
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom comic
- Jock Lindsey's Hangar Bar
Sources[]
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: The Illustrated Screenplay (as "krtya")
- The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones
- Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide
- "You Call This Archeology?" - Indiana Jones: The Official Magazine 3