Anneliese Michel

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Anneliese Michel was a German Catholic woman who was said to be possessed by demons and subsequently underwent an exorcism. The case has been labeled as a misidentification of mental illness, negligence, abuse, and religious hysteria. When she was sixteen, she suffered a severe convulsion and was diagnosed as having epilepsy. Shortly afterwards, she began hallucinating while praying. In 1973, she suffered from depression and began to hear voices telling her that she was “damned” and would "rot in hell". Her treatment in an unnamed psychiatric hospital did not improve Michel’s health. Moreover, her depression began to deepen. She grew increasingly frustrated with medical intervention as it did not help while her condition, including her depression, worsened with time. A devout Catholic, Michel began to attribute her condition to demonic possession, since she became intolerant of sacred places and objects, such as the crucifix.  Once convinced of her possession, Anneliese, her parents, and the exorcists stopped seeking medical treatment, and put her fate solely into the hands of the exorcism rites.

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Section 13 of the Rituale Romanum states “In primis, ne facile credat, aliquem a daemonio obsesjum esse; sed nota habeat ea signa, quibus obsessus dignoscitur ab iis, qui vel atra bile, vel morbo aliquo laborant. Signa autem obsidentis dacmonis sunt; Ignota lingua loqui pluribus verbis , vel loquentem intelligere: Distantia, et occulta patefacerc: Vircs supra aetatis, seu conditionis naturam ostendere: et id genus alia , quae cum plurima concurrunt, majora sunt indicia.” Which translated means “In the first place he should not be fast to believe that someone is posessed by a demon, but note whether the person has signs by which person possessed differs from those who suffer from a disease. Signs of posession are these: Speaking unknown language in many words or understanding when foreign language is spoken by someone else; Ability to divulge future and hidden events; Powers that are beyond person's age or natural condition; and other such things which together build up evidence.” In Anneliese’s case, she was having seizures and she was depressed. So that definitely makes a justifiable cause for an exorcism. Right? Well on July 1st 1976, Anneliese died in her home. The autopsy report stated the cause of death as malnutrition and dehydration from almost a year of semi-starvation while the rites of exorcism were performed, she weighed sixty eight pounds at the date of her death. Supposedly many demons invaded her mind, body, and spirit, and most of them are well known. Lucifer, Cain, Judas, Nero, Hitler, Belie, and Fleischmann. That right, Hitler apparently possessed this girl. Both of her exorcists claimed that she had been freed from possession the night before she died.  After her death her parents and the priests were charged with negligent homicide, to which they were convicted of and sentenced to six months in jail and three years probation.

Can I just ask, how bad off must you be if you think an exorcism will make you better. You must be pretty desperate. But shame on her parents and those priests who let her condition deteriorate, that child could have lived if they didn't let her get worse than she already was. Now I don't believe in any of this but still come on, don't partake in something that you think will help but will really just make you worse in the end. Its actually really sad that this happened.