'She ran around like a maniac'

bbc ^ | 20 April 2009 | Nicola Fell

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Rain is pelting down on Doña Porcela's treatment room in Puerto Cabezas, the main town on Nicaragua's Northern Caribbean coast. The room is barren except for a few plastic chairs, a wooden table and some old plastic bottles balanced precariously on timber beams. Doña Porcela is a respected traditional healer here and the bottles are filled with her secret medicinal potions. Her patient today is a teenage girl asleep on a piece of cardboard, serving as a mattress on the dirt floor. "Grisi Siknis turns people into witches and they go crazy," she said. Last year there were 65 cases of Grisi Siknis, which translates from the local Miskito language as 'crazy sickness'. Exorcism It behaves like a virus, sending teenager after teenager into a frenzied state followed by long periods of coma-like unconsciousness.

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It behaves like a virus, sending teenager after teenager into a frenzied state followed by long periods of coma-like unconsciousness.

Lola Emberto and family Lola Emberto's children had attacks

While Western doctors are at a loss as to how to treat this mysterious illness, Doña Porcela says she can cure people with her concoction.

"It can be drunk or bathed in," she said. "Within three or four days, they are normal again."

Using her herbs and candles, she performs a cleansing ceremony on sufferers and, often, on their houses too - akin to an exorcism.

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"It behaves like a virus, sending teenager after teenager into a frenzied state..."

A similar phenomena swept the US back in the '50's...

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“One day at school, I felt giddy, and found it difficult to breathe,” she said.

“Then, I saw something coming towards me - a kind of black man or a dragon that entered me and possessed me.”

Three other girls were affected the same day at Anadina’s school, where Reverend Harold Dixon is headmaster.

He has witnessed many attacks of Grisi Siknis.

“They get giddy and they faint and fall to the ground,” he said.

“Then, they start hollering and they hit their heads on the wall or desk. They have an extra strength.

“You have to have five or six people to hold down one girl.”

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