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. 

Nathan's Story

Now gather around everybody, I have a grand story to tell you. This story has Kings, Queens, Knights, Princes, Princesses, Peasants and Dragons. You know you're average Middle Ages story. So listen carefully.

Once upon a time, there was a peasant named Nathan. Nathan was just your average peasant but he had an extraordinary gift: tolerance. Now even though Nathan was a peasant he was close to the King and Queen, of the fair land of Trumansburg. Nathan had only two enemies, the Queen and the Dragon, but you see it wasn't always like that. Once upon a time, Nathan was a Knight and the King and Queen were happy and there was no Dragon to strike fear into Nathans heart. But that was long ago, in a time so distant it was almost like a dream.
But since then Nathan had been demoted to a lowly peasant, and while he still maintained a close relationship with the King, the Queen was constantly stepping on Nathans toes, trying to debilitate him so bad that he would just give up. What's sad is that Nathan did try to give up, twice. Twice he tried and twice he was locked in the stockade. And the stockade tried to help Nathan to get back on his feet, but Nathan found it was hard, especially when the Queen kept knocking him down. But Nathan decided that no matter how great his desire to give up was, he still kept his head high. So to keep himself from cracking from the pressure, Nathan moved in with the King, and felt mildly better. But after a while Nathan felt the pressure again, especially from the Queen, but now he had a new front to fight, because the Queen sent the Dragon to fight him. The Dragon was hardly a worthy foe, but since the Queen was to chicken-shit to tell Nathan how she really felt about him, she sent the Dragon to do her dirty work.
But suddenly Nathan heard a rumor that made him jump for joy: his cousins were coming! Nathan was glad because he thought that his cousins could mitigate the Queen and the Dragons fury. And for the two weeks they were with Nathan, Prince Jón and Princess Kathleen, tempered the Queens anger, but alas the Dragon was still in full force.
Soon Prince Jón and Princess Kathleen left and Nathan felt so sad and alone. Prince Jón and Princess Kathleen had been his rock, and even though sometimes he couldn't understand them, they provided a source of comfort for him, because he knew deep down in his heart that they would never judge for being who he is.
Even though Nathan is but a lowly peasant, he knows that one day things will be better and the Queen and the Dragon will not make him cower in fear, and be afraid to even go home. But Nathan struggles still because he can't remember a time when he was truly happy, and all the potions the witch-doctors could give him will not cure him, because his body can heal from the wounds, but his soul won't heal with those potions. They mean nothing, for his emotional self. But still Nathan keeps going.