Cue the "I Dream of Jeannie" sound effect.
Posted on 08/01/2011 7:57:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Saudi man is believed to have been gripped by jinn (ghosts) during a picnic with his friends in a valley which is reputed to be haunted. But he was later treated in an exorcist-style session by the Gulf Kingdom’s religious police.
The unnamed man and seven friends from the western town of Makkah were vacationing in the nearby Taif city when they decided to descend into Wadi Al-Amak (the deep abyss) despite warnings by local people.
After a short evening trip in the valley, the colour of the man’s began to change and his behavior became aggressive before he lost balance and fell down.
When his friends tried to talk to him, he shouted and pushed them away while his eyes were fixed at an area deep in the valley.
“Friends then overpowered him and washed his face with cold water…it was clear the man was haunted by a jinn,” Sabq Arabic language daily said.
“They then decided to carry him back to town…they were told that the valley is haunted and that there were two similar cases in the past.”
The paper said the man was taken to the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the most influential Islamic law-enforcement authority in the conservative Moslem Gulf nation.
“The Commission brought experts in such cases and subjected the man to a session of Koran recitation and incense burning until the jinn was forced to get out of the man through his hand…once the session was over, the man began to restore his strength…after a while he fully recovered and started to ask his friends why he was brought to that place.”
If you held me down and read the Koran to me, I’d probably get violent and try to run away too.
>“Friends then overpowered him and washed his face with cold water…it was clear the man was haunted by a jinn,” <
Funny...we do the same thing with our local drunks and they’re not possessed.
The A-rabs generally try pretty hard not to let us infidels see just how superstitious they still are.
Cue the "I Dream of Jeannie" sound effect.
They are still in the 7th century.
It is hard to tell the difference between Saudis possessed by demons and those who are not, when they are flying planes into buildings.
Maybe he was choking to death. They shook him, and the goat meat eventually dislodged.
In the 70s, he was in a movie about Mohammad with Anthony Quinn.
“Friends then overpowered him and washed his face with cold water…it was clear the man was haunted by a jinn,” Sabq Arabic language daily said. “
I saw thousands of cases of this in 2008. They had maniacal looking eyes that also had a glazed distant looking appearance. They looked zombie like and keep saying the same dreaded phrase over and over; “Hope And Change and “Yes We Can”
I don’t know anything about them grabbing A-Rabs, but they do make a pretty good mustard.
I'm blaming the naughty witch Serena from "Bewitched".
Sounds like a psychosimatically induced grand mal seizure. If people believe in something strongly enough, it can produce physical reactions.
I’d be willing to bet this particular locale is well-known to the people there, is believed to be haunted, and the subject of a good many spooky bedtime stories. Most likely, this locale was ill-regarded long before Islam came on the scene.....probably even before Moses.
The human mind is an amazing thing, and folk beliefs/superstitions have a power that’s hard to fathom or measure. Stuff like this is fascinating for the student of human nature.
Yep. I believe most illnesses are psychosomatic. I also believe the majority of medications on the market today are probably nothing but expensive placebos. The more a medicine costs, the more the patient will believe it's powerful stuff.
Good thing that worked, the next step involves rocks!
Never picnic with friends in a valley reputed to be haunted. Just don’t do it.
He also played Kang, who was my favorite Klingon, but I tell my wife that.
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