In September this year, a woman in Guyana was convicted of bludgeoning a friend to death. Her friend, she explained, was possessed, and she was trying to beat the Devil out. In Romania, meanwhile, a priest and four nuns from the Romanian Orthodox Church are on trial, accused of murdering a 23-year-old novice. In his defence, the priest who led the exorcism has claimed his approach was better than the medical treatment she had been receiving for her schizophrenia. It's an older story, though, that inspired a film out this month, The Exorcism of Emily Rose. It concerns the death of Anneliese Michel, a Bavarian woman who died in 1976, aged 23, also after an exorcism. The two priests involved were charged with negligent homicide. So were the woman's parents. Born in 1952, Michel was raised in a strict Catholic family. While other teenagers were experimenting with sex and rebelling against authority, she tried to atone for the sins of wayward priests by sleeping on a bare floor in the middle of winter.

In 1969, according to court findings, Michel experienced her first epileptic fit; by 1973 she was suffering from depression and considering suicide. As her feelings of torment grew stronger, she reported seeing faces of demons on the people and things around her (a phenomenon eerily portrayed in the film) and hearing voices informing her that she was damned.

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It definately sounds like a schizophrenic episode. With her religious background being the reason she saw demonic faces, and voices saying she was damned. Not a possession in my opinion.

I have only met one person with Schizophrenia and when he was off his meds could easily be said to be possessed. Scared the hell out of the rest of us.

demented christians

That's the problem with "possessions". some people cannot differentiate it from mental illness.

I find all that stuff freaky. It's scary that it can happen to you.

well....as for possessions...i think its possible for a spirit to inhabit someone's body...taking over their energies, and evenb making them become psychotic

but, in this case, since she was having hallucinations of demons, i am considering it was a mental relaps, most likely schizophrenia...this was probably brought on from having a very excitable mind that was very suggestive, and maybe her parents were extremely unruley in forcing their religious beleifs on her

i have had battles with this illness myself...and i dunno exactly how i got better, but i am just not being bothered by it right now....INSTEAD i have to worry about bipolar disorder and i still don't have any meds..

Do you notice that only the catholic people getting possesed..(as i heard).
Tis scary. x_x