Sentences with phrase «possession by evil spirits»
Over the centuries sages have attributed its seizures to everything from the presence of excess phlegm in the brain (per the ancient Greeks) to possession by evil spirits (during the Middle Ages).
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Racism is an obsession as pernicious and devilish as any possession by evil spirits of first - century people; we can do everything within our powers to oppose racism.
Hickson documented his assertion with specific cases: Complete cures were claimed as to pain, rheumatism, ear discharge, goiter, severe headaches, and blood poisoning (p. 118); blindness, paralysis, deafness, possession by evil spirits, asthma, stammering, and curvature of the spine (p. 128); palsy, dumbness, and mental deficiency (p. 151); deformed feet and legs made almost entirely normal (p. 152); «the healing of sin - sick souls» and «the healing of the body» (p. 168); partial paralysis, paralysis, infantile paralysis, rheumatoid arthritis, neuritis, St. Vitus's dance, epilepsy, and mental disorders (pp. 182 - 183).»
What today might be regarded as psychiatric illness was at that time considered to be possession by evil spirits.
-LSB-...] In Tanzania to this day, as with other parts of Africa, epilepsy is associated with possession by evil spirits, witchcraft, or poisoning and is believed by many to be contagious.
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We no longer believe disease is caused by evil spirits, that seizures are the result of demonic possession, or than lightning is caused by Thor's hammer.
For example, we now know epilepsy is not caused by evil spirits, nor are epileptic seizures caused by demon possession.
For example, we now know epilepsy is not caused by evil spirits, nor are epileptic seizures caused by demonic possession.
They believed disease was caused by evil spirits and that epileptic seizures were caused by demonic possessions.
At the same time a more immediate power was available for the confrontation of evil and misfortune, often conceived in indigenous terms as possession by pay - picacu (spirits), through the saints, exorcists and to some extent the clerics themselves.
This Iranian horror takes place in wartime 1988 and follows Shideh (Narges Rashidi) and her daughter Dorsa (Avin Manshadi), who start to believe their family home is haunted by djinn (evil spirits) that are trying to steal their most treasured possessions.