To: jrherreid
Well, if you are interested, you can start with these two: "The African Roots of Voodoo" from National Geographic (August 1995), and also "Haiti's Voodoo Pilgrimages: Of Spirits and Saints." National Geographic (March 1985). You can probably get these at your local library. Does these periodicals depict people flying, climbing on ceilings like flies, levitating themselves, engaging in "astral projection", or other activities that defy the laws of physics?
Or do they simply show people wriggling around mumbling incoherent phrases that people would just swear sound just like some extinct language?
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11/09/2001 4:31:12 PM PST by
OWK
To: OWK
OWK, I'm not talking about a Hollywood perception of posession, with flying pea soup and 360 turns of the head. What they show in those articles (if I remember correctly) is that the folks who claim to be posessed have some unusual powers, such as being able to withstand extreme heat, like burning coals. Heart rate and respiration changes, that kind of thing. If you don't believe me, try doing a little research before you end up making yourself look silly.
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