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After i did a Google search I couldn't figure out if it was 2, 12, 17, 18, 20 or 30 students that had been possessed in that school.....every article says something different. I think the more that it makes the news the more that will claim to have been possessed for the attention, pretty soon the whole d*mn city will have been possessed.

I didn't find any mention of drugs being involved though. I do find it strange that the first reaction to kids collapsing and convulsing was to immediately take them to the church for a exorcism and not the hospital for an medical check-up. Complete ignorance.

 

There are cases documented by doctors of people becoming physically ill (temperatures, psychosis, vomiting and so on) because they think they have been put under curses. I remember seeing in a show that a doctor could not treat it with traditional medicine and hired a fake witch doctor to cure the guys illness and the guy immediately started getting better. Guess it was some form of severe "spiritual" hypochondria. I have looked for the video clip because it was quite interested to watch but couldn't find it (there are just too many crap videos from people made by people who actually believe in the stuff). I want to say that the show took place somewhere in Louisiana or the Caribbean.

The mind is a powerful thing and ignorance can be very dangerous. In the case of the link above I blame the Catholic church leaders and culture here in the Philippines.