Spirit Daily
Have you noticed, perchance, how, in certain far-off nations, there are what can only be deemed epidemics of possession?
Usually, it’s somewhere in deep Africa. You’ll see a report of an entire school closed while exorcists go to work, cleansing it, called in even by government authorities.
Dozens of youngsters will suddenly exhibit bizarre manifestations — growling, thrashing about, rolling their eyes, claiming dark apparitions (that others likewise see). In the past twenty years, at least a dozen schools have declared such an emergency — that we know about.
Most recently, we had this report (in the Zimbabwe Mail):
“In a suspected case of Satanism, a Grade Three pupil at Chipiwa Primary School in Mkwasine, Chiredzi District, reportedly disrupted lessons when she started manifesting as strange occult-related happenings engulfed the school. The incident which left both teachers and pupils scurrying for cover happened on Monday morning. It is reported that while manifesting, the girl who was holding a bottle filled with something like blood was acting weirdly while going into a trance claiming she was seeing her friend based in South Africa who frequently visited her at night.”
Now later in the article, really bizarre:
“It is alleged that during the manifestation, she pointed the bottle at three of her classmates resulting in them to fainting. Their skin was also said to have developed snake-like colors…”
It also occurs, allegedly, in India — where gods and goddesses still prevail and where various creatures are claimed, causing mass hysteria. Years back it was an eruption of the so-called “monkey man.”
Surely, you can peg some of it to psychology — hysteria indeed. But in other cases, an occultist leveling a curse is indicated as the cause, and may well be. Central and western Africa are the wellsprings of particularly dark occultism (progenitors, in fact, of voodoo).
Is it all imagined?
In Africa, children are often kidnapped for human sacrifice, especially albinos. It is an actual crisis.
In India, it’s the paganism by way often of Hinduism (note the prevalence, in that religion, of horns and snakes).
But the link of satanism and youth is hardly confined to “primitive” culture. Witness the fact, as the International Business Times in the UK reported last weekend, that “adults with witchcraft and demonic possession beliefs are abusing almost 1,500 children a year, new Government statistics have revealed. 1,460 child abuse cases in England last year were ‘linked to faith and belief,’ according to the latest figures released by the Department of Education, the first Government statistics on the issue. Many injuries are due to non-Church “exorcisms.”
That’s an incredible statistic (much of it tied to immigration from voodooist nations).
In the U.S., it was an eruption, years back, of what they tried to call “Tourette’s syndrome” — whereby kids were suddenly laughing or talking uncontrollably, even lapsing into trance.
Only when we stop giving such obviously spiritual afflictions psychological or biological names will be alleviate suffering and in many cases prevent them in the first place.