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Was High School Girl Possessed In Class? Girl Spoke In Tongues,

7/20/2013

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Was High School Girl Possessed In Class? Girl Spoke In Tongues, Made Predictions For Future

PELAHATCHIE,  Missisippi. --

Students at a Mississippi high school said a fellow student  spoke in tongues and made grave predictions for her classmates for three days. 

Some of those predictions included when students would die.

Pelahatchie High School students called reporters from TV station WAPT, convinced that an evil spirit had taken over Lashundra Clanton.

"It was disturbing to a lot of students," Pelahatchie sophomore Rob Sparks said. 

This week, Sparks said one of his classmates came to school in tears. She was speaking in a deep voice, he said, and sometimes spoke in tongues.

Sparks said Clanton told students about little-known facts in their past and made
predictions on how some of them would die.

"It made some students cry and leave school," Sparks said. "Some have not returned yet."

Sparks and his classmates said they think an evil spirit possessed the girl. They were so convinced that Sparks and his friends brought Bibles to school and had a devotional.


"Some believe, some don't." Clanton said.
"They say it was the devil, but the devil only tells lies. Everything I said was
the truth."

Clanton said she admits she spoke
in tongues and made predictions for her classmates. But she said it was God
speaking through her, not the devil.

"I didn't cuss anyone out," Clanton said. "If it was a demon, I would have tore that
school u. I would have thrown desks and everything. I didn't say no cuss words
at all."

Pelahatchie school officials wouldn't comment, but Clanton's mother said the school had counselors and a youth pastor talk to her daughter.

Joyce Spann said she believes God is using her daughter to touch students at Pelahatchie High School. 

"They said they didn't know what to do," Spann said. "They didn't know how to handle the problem and they really didn't come up with a solution."

Sparks' father said he's unsure what to believe about Clanton's experience. But he said that school officials should have told parents about what happened. Instead, they heard it from their children.

"It disrupted class, and I think they could have done a little bit better," Clint Sparks said. 

Clanton continues to go to class. She said God hasn't spoken through her since Wednesday.

Her mother said the school didn't punish her daughter, though officials warned her that if she disrupts class, they will send her home.

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 Needles Removed From Brazillian 'Black Magic' Child

7/20/2013

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Operation on Brazilian needle boy Doctors in Brazil have removed four needles from the lung and near the heart of a boy who was reportedly subjected to black magic. A hospital spokeswoman said the boy, 2, was in a stable  condition but more operations would be needed to remove dozens more needles still inside him.

The four needles removed were thought to be the most threatening to his life. His stepfather confessed to inserting the needles after being advised to perform a ritual killing. The surgery lasted nearly five hours, said Susy Moreno, a spokeswoman for the hospital in the north-eastern city of Salvador where the boy is in intensive care. "He's okay, the surgery was a success, he's doing fine," she told The Associated Press by telephone.

Earlier, the hospital said one needle had punctured the boy's heart, two were near the heart and a fourth was inside a lung. Doctors had warned there was a further risk of infection and the operation itself could pose a risk of death. 'Ritual killing' Brazilian police said the stepfather had confessed to sticking the needles into the toddler with the help of another man and a woman.

Roberto Carlos Magalhaes told them his mistress had told him to ritually kill the child to take revenge on his wife, police said. The boy's mother had taken him to hospital in the north-eastern state of Bahia, suffering from stomach pains and vomiting. It was then that X-rays showed scores of sewing needles inside his neck, torso and legs. The youngster was airlifted to Salvador for the operation. The boy's mother told police she suspected the child had been the victim of a black magic ritual after she found suspicious objects in the home she shared with Mr Magalhaes - her husband of six months - and her six children.

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Black Magic? Newspaper Claims Suspect Turned Into a Goat Saturday , January 24, 2009

7/19/2013

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LAGOS, Nigeria — 

One of Nigeria's biggest daily newspapers reported that police implicated a goat in an attempted automobile theft. In a front-page article on Friday, the Vanguard newspaper said
that two men tried to steal a Mazda car two days earlier in Kwara State, with one suspect transforming himself into a goat as vigilantes cornered him.


The paper quoted police spokesman Tunde Mohammed as saying that while one suspect escaped, the other transformed into a goat as he was about to be apprehended.

The newspaper reported that police paraded the goat before journalists, and
published a picture of the animal.

Police in the state couldn't immediately be reached for  comment.

Belief in black magic is widespread in Nigeria, particularly in far-flung rural areas.

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Man charged with posing as a sorcerer and practising 'Black Magic'

7/19/2013

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Man charged with posing as a sorcerer and practising 'Black Magic' An Arab man has been arrested for allegedly posing as a sorcerer and practising black  magic

 
 
  • By Dina Aboul Hosn, Staff Reporter

  • Published: 00:00 October 28, 2011
Dubai:

An Arab man has been arrested for allegedly posing as a sorcerer and practising black magic. The man, who used beauty salon workers to send him clients, was caught red-handed following a trap laid by the Dubai Police.The Criminal Investigation Department's Economic Crime section set a trap for the man using two policewomen who claimed to be clients.

Brigadier Khalil Ebrahim Al Mansouri, Director of Dubai Police's Criminal Investigation Department, warned the public against falling for such con artists who claim they can help people with their problems through black magic, which is against Islam and causes social problems.

Major Rashid Mohammad Saleh, Acting Director of the Economic Crime Department, said a report was received from a source two weeks ago about an Arab ‘sorcerer' who was conning people with claims of solving their problems using black magic.

Money racket

Within 24 hours of receiving the report, a trap was set using a policewoman and the source, who told the fake sorcerer a new client was seeking help with marital problems. The source told him the client had agreed to pay his high fee.

An appointment was set to meet the client in Qusais, and the man was arrested.

He confessed to promoting his business using women's beauty parlours. The women put clients in contact with the suspect, for a commission of up to Dh3,000. The confessions led to the arrest of two women.

All three were referred to the public prosecution.

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Black Magic Chant Before Stabbing At Cell Block

7/19/2013

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Ed Mason
10/27/2011

The city man believed to be a person of
interest in the death of Dana Turner from Fort Saskatchewan was allegedly "casting Black Magic spells" before a fellow inmate was stabbed in the Kamloops Correctional Centre.

The attack a week ago  Thursday, for which Mark Lindsay is charged with aggravated assault, was much more serious than police let on. The wounded inmate has lost an eye but is lucky not to have permanent brain damage. The other inmate used a pen and then a pencil to stab him twice through the bottom of his left eye. Doctors treating the man in Vancouver say three bits of a pencil broke off and are lodged near the back of his brain.

The injured inmate's sister tells Kamloops This Week: "He said the attacker was ‘casting black magic’ on him and then he stabbed him." Mark Lindsay, Dana Turner's violent boyfriend, is being held on unrelated charges the RCMP won't
discuss.

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Mummy There's A Poltergeist In My Room

7/19/2013

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By Jane Fryer
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updated at 1:55 AM on 2nd April 2011

 Ellie Manning’s bedroom looks like it belongs to a stroppy teenager. The wardrobe doors are off their hinges and propped against the pink wall. The pictures hang at drunken angles. A bright pink chair sits in the middle of the room, as if abandoned in a hurry, and tangled piles of clothes and toys litter the floor. So far, so messily normal. But on closer inspection, things don’t feel quite right.Three pink plastic crucifixes hang in a cluster above the unmade bed. A group of crystals line the windowsill like sentries. And the floor around the bedroom door is gritty with a thick layer of salt. 

Spooked:
Eleven-year-old Ellie Manning has been too scared to go upstairs in the family
home in Holbrooks, Coventry, for fear of what the poltergeist might do next Oh yes, and Ellie isn’t a teenager. She’s just 11 years old and for the past month she’s been too scared to go upstairs — far less go into her room — in the three-bedroom house she shares with brother Jaydon, six, mother Lisa, and Lisa’s partner Anthony Powell, 25, in Holbrooks, Coventry. ‘We’ve had priests  sprinkling everything with holy water, waving crucifixes and saying prayers,  spiritualists with protective crystals and mediums laying salt down at the  doorways to keep the evil spirits out,’ says Lisa, 34.

‘We’ve tried it all after everything that’s happened here in the past six months.’Lisa’s ‘everything’ includes, she says, doors opening and slamming shut, pounding  footsteps, chairs that move on their own, cutlery drawers that hurtle to the floor, kettles that fly, tea cups that float and shatter in mid-air and bleach bottles that double as ghostly missiles. All of which she claims is part of a  ‘sinister force’ that has been terrorising her family — pushing and shoving  them, hurling things at them, knocking pictures off the walls, destroying their  belongings, speaking in strange voices and maiming their pet dogs — since last
September.

‘People say it’s all too far fetched — like something from a horror film — and that we’re making it up,’ she says as she takes me on a tour round her end-of-terrace council house. ‘But this is our life and our home and it’s really happening to us and we can’t take it any longer.’The devil within: Footage captured by Ellie's mother, Lisa, shows a cupboard flying open and a chair moving across the room And so, earlier this week and after months of pleading with the local council to rehouse them, Lisa claims she snapped and made public a home video recording of the pink chair in Ellie’s bedroom, seemingly moving by itself.

‘It took us weeks to capture the poltergeist. First it was just shadows, which we knew wouldn’t be enough to convince anyone, then the video melted in the recorder, but finally we caught it.’The video does indeed show the chair moving. Although, unfortunately for Lisa, it’s not quite possible to see the chair’s base and ascertain if anything — like a thread, or a stick, or a magnet — could, just possibly, be propelling it.Ever since, the family have found themselves in a maelstrom of publicity — on television, in the papers — and not all of it good.

‘People are calling us liars. They say it’s a hoax. But all I can say is — we’ve been through six kettles, all my casserole dishes have been smashed, the children’s television and Nintendo have  been destroyed and I’ve only two cups left that aren’t chipped from being hurled around.’ Goodness. According to Lisa and Anthony, it all started back in September, when they and Lisa’s two children moved in.
 
‘From day one, I felt like somebody was watching me — particularly in the kitchen,’ says Lisa. ‘But I wasn’t that bothered. It never occurred to me it was anything sinister — just a silly shadowy feeling.’

Phenomenon: Things had been thrown around the Mannings' house and lights turned on and off - striking fear into the family Within a couple of weeks, though, lights started flicking on and off, footsteps pounded on the upstairs landing when all the family were downstairs and doors slammed shut at odd times.  Again, Lisa — who insists she’d had no previous experience of ghosts or spirits and has never even had her fortune read — wasn’t fazed. ‘I thought it must be a wiring fault, but the electrician couldn’t find anything wrong,’ she says. ‘So we just tried to forget about it.’But things soon escalated.

One night last October Lisa and Anthony were woken by a freezing draft. The front door, which Lisa insists she’d locked with a key earlier, was wide open and the sound of heavy running footsteps rang out from Ellie’s room. But when they checked on her, she was fast asleep. Then things started going wild in the kitchen.

‘First of all, the kettle kept smashing on to the floor. And the cutlery drawers started shooting out. Then, one by one, my casserole dishes smashed onto the floor. For weeks we kept making excuses for the children’s sake — it must have been the wind, it must have been one of the dogs.

‘Ellie started hearing voices in her room and we told her she must have been imagining it.‘And then one day I said, ‘I think we should get a crucifix’, and suddenly a heavy glass ashtray came flying from the kitchen into the sitting room, followed by the kettle.‘As we fled to the door, a dirty mug floated off the dining room table and shattered in mid-air and Ellie and I felt a force hit us in the shoulder like a great shove, before footsteps pounded up the stairs.’ Terrified, the family fled to stay with Lisa’s mum. According to Lisa, that was the end of any pretending. And the beginning of a new and alarmingly busy phase of ‘spiritual activity’.

Because, while most modern ghostly sightings seem to be limited to a few floating light orbs, a  sudden temperature drop, or a sinister feeling, here in Coventry, extraordinary story after extraordinary story tumbles out. In at the deep end: Daily Mail reporter Jane Fryer (left) meets up with Lisa Manning to get a true taste of  just what has been going on in the haunted house

So there’s the time Ellie was hit by a flying bleach bottle, the framed picture of the lead singer of UB40 that bashed Anthony in the side of the head, the mysterious injuries suffered by their pet dogs — one was ‘pushed’ down the stairs, breaking two of its legs — the time they were all locked in, hysterically tugging at a living room door held shut by an unseen force, forcing them to  flee out of the window.

And not forgetting the time Lisa stood on the front lawn, looked up at Ellie’s bedroom window to see the lights flashing on and off and the blinds shooting up and down until suddenly they parted and she saw ‘something huge and dark — about seven feet tall and like an animal.’Sadly the children aren’t here today to share their experiences, but Anthony more than makes up for it with his claims that: ‘I’d wake up with scratches all over my chest and big red hand prints on my arms as if someone had been grabbing me in the night.’

‘Even Jaydon and Ellie had scratches on their bodies,’ adds Lisa. ‘But we hadn’t put two and two together then.’ Or, sadly, taken any photographs.Perhaps unsurprisingly, the family have brought in a steady stream of spiritualists, priests, mediums, you name it — who have arrived clutching white candles, holy water, crystal pendants, large containers of table salt (to lay at the doorways to discourage the spirits) and a host of  fantastic theories about spiritual doorways.

‘One medium said that this place was a like a portal hole for spirits,’ says Lisa, pointing to a spot on the sitting room floor. ‘So it’s a bit like a bus stop. They all queue here, travel up through the portal hole, look round and if there’s been a spirit here and there’s negative energy, they’ll come and join.’New start? The family are hoping that following a visit by TV 'ghostbuster' Derek Acorah, their
torment is overIt wasn’t all quacks. The local council sent a Church of England
priest (‘they only started taking it seriously once they saw the video’) who  sprayed holy water, said lots of prayers and, according to Lisa, recommended
they were not the right family to stay in the house.

This week they even had celebrity TV ‘ghostbuster’ Derek Acorah round — armed with more crystals, salt, cleansing prayers and a film crew — who claimed it was all down to a very angry man called Jim, who once lived in this spot, died of a heart attack aged 58 and had attached himself to Ellie. According to Lisa, the general pattern has been that, after every ‘cleansing’ (and a night of offended banging and crashing), things have quietened down, only to veer back to abnormal in a matter of weeks.

‘It starts building again with slamming doors and flying cutlery. Then the whole house starts to feel tense — I’ll start getting headaches, Ellie (who is staying with her grandma until things calm down) gets a pain in her stomach, Anthony just feels weird and the air feels cloudy and muggy — almost pressurised — until things explode with another bang.’Derek Acorah insists that, after his ministering this week, the poltergeist will not return. Lisa, who is crossing her fingers, claims the house already feels different — ‘more like my house, for once’ — and, amazingly, claims she’s very happy to stay if ‘Jim’ really has gone and she can persuade her daughter to return home. 

Problem solved: Psychic Derek Acorah insists the poltergeist will not return to haunt the Coventry home Which is all splendid news of course, but doesn’t deal with the doubters and cynics who claim Lisa and Anthony have made it all up.

Lisa, however, is standing firm.‘I don’t care who knows now or what they say. All I want is that no one else has to go through what we’ve been through. Come and live here yourself for a bit if you want and see if it’s a hoax. Just take a look around you — does this look like a normal house?’I take one last long look before I leave and she’s absolutely right — there aren’t many unchipped mugs in the kitchen cupboard, Ellie’s room is a right mess and the house is littered with crystals, crucifixes, candles and salt.

But  that’s about it. The pink chair is still and quiet, none of the doors is  slamming, the bleach is safely tucked away in the bathroom cupboard and there
are no scratches or fingerprints on show Maybe this poor family really has been
terrorised for the past six months and Derek Acorah really has done the job, or
maybe it’s all an elaborate hoax. Who knows?  But I should perhaps mention
that, as I later discovered, the previous family to live at the Coventry house
apparently left in the middle of the night, leaving brand new carpets and all
their possessions, in their hurry to get away.

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Exorcism Of Toddler Gone Wrong

7/19/2013

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By   ADIE SURI ZULKEFLI | 

adie@nst.com.my       

 
 BUKIT MERTAJAM:  A FAMILY'S obsession with the supernatural and occult  took a tragic turn when a toddler was killed in
an exorcism  that went horribly wrong. The 2-year-old girl's parents were among   eight family  members and a  foreign maid who took part in the ritual that lasted    nearly 20 hours before it was broken up by policemen at their home in Taman 
Bukit Minyak, Bukit Tengah, here, on Sunday night.

The victim's father is an engineer in a multinational electronic  company based at Kulim Hi-Tech Park in Kedah, while her mother is an alternative medical practitioner. The mother is also three months pregnant.

It was learnt that the family was convinced that the girl was possessed and put her through the ritual to cleanse her from evil spirits.   A police party that arrived at the house after being tipped-off, was shocked to  find the suspects pinning down the girl  in the master bedroom of the  double-storey house.

Police  immediately pulled the adults off  the girl but it  was too late.The girl was believed to  have died of suffocation.

A source close to the family said she became suspicious when the  suspects,which included the toddler's parents,grandmother, aunts, cousins and  their Indonesian maid had locked themselves in the room since 2am on Sunday.

"They did not leave the room at all, not even for a meal and did not  bother to switch on the lights and the air-conditioner," she said.

The family members were earlier seen praying and burning red packets  in front of the house, which caught the neighbours' attention.

Several neighbours asked what the family was doing but they were told  off and
warned not to meddle.

At 7.30pm on Sunday, the girl's uncle came to the house with his wife  for their usual Sunday dinner with the family.

The man's wife said one of the sisters in the family, who was obsessed  with the supernatural, told them to leave the house as they "were possessed".

That woman was a schoolteacher who was sacked several months ago after  she allegedly started spreading religious messages to her students.

"My husband and I left and had dinner elsewhere but he was disturbed  and decided to call the police," she said.

Seberang Perai Tengah district police chief Assistant Commissioner  Azman Abd Lah said the victim died from asphyxiation, based on the post-mortem conducted at the Seberang Jaya Hospital.

Azman said they have detained the eight suspects, between the ages of 
16 and 67.  The case has been classified as murder.

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What In The Name Of God

7/19/2013

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Jennifer Carpenter has the title role in "The Exorcism of  Emily Rose,"

which deals with the aftermath of an exorcism conducted on Anneliese

Michel, inset. (By Diyah Pera -- Screen Gems; Inset  By

Dpa/picture-alliance) 
 
 By Eric T.

Hansen
Special to The Washington Post

Sunday, 
September 4,
2005 
  
BERLIN -- The first person to recognize that Anneliese Michel was possessed by demons was an older woman accompanying the girl on a pilgrimage. She noticed that Anneliese would not walk past a certain image of Jesus, refused to
drink water from a holy spring and smelled bad -- hellishly bad. An exorcist in a 
nearby town examined Michel and returned a diagnosis of demonic possession. The bishop issued mission to perform the rite of exorcism according to the
Roman ritual of 1614. 
 
Half a year and 67 rites of exorcism later, Michel was dead at 23.Anneliese Michel did not die in the Middle Ages, but in 1976, in the small town of Klingenberg, in the heart of one of the most civilized and advanced 
countries in Europe: Germany. 

On Friday, the story that shocked Germany is to the big screen. Though set in America in the present, "The Exorcism of Emily Rose," which stars Tom Wilkinson as the priest who performed the exorcism and Laura Linney as his defense lawyer, is based on Michel's story and focuses not on the sensational exorcism itself but on the court case that followed. 

Two years after Michel's death, a German court found her parents and the two priests involved guilty of negligent manslaughter and sentenced them to
six months in prison, suspended with three years' probation.  
 
What shocked Germany most was the fact that it could happen in a country that  prides itself on being highly rational -- and highly secularized. 

"The surprising thing was that the people connected to Michel were  all completely convinced that she had really been possessed," says Franz
Barthel, amazement still in his voice three decades after he covered the
story for the regional daily paper Main-Post. 

"Many years later, I visited the woman who first diagnosed the Devil," Barthel says. "She blessed my microphone with holy water because I was working for the
radio then, and it was likely that the Devil was in control of the microphone." 

Michel was raised in a strict Catholic family in Bavaria, which rejected the reforms of Vatican II and flirted with religious fringe groups. While other kids 
her age were rebelling against authority and experimenting with sex,  she tried  to atone for the sins of wayward priests and drug addicts by sleeping on  a bare  floor in the middle of  winter. 

According to court findings, she experienced her first epileptic attack in 1969, and by 1973 was suffering from depression and considering suicide. Soon she was seeing the faces of demons on the people and things around her, and voices told
her she was damned. 

Under the influence of her demons, Michel ripped the clothes off her body,  compulsively performed up to 400 squats a day, crawled under a table and barked like a dog for two days, ate spiders and coal, bit the head off a dead bird and licked her own urine from the floor. 

By 1975 Michel was asking for an exorcism. The Revs. Ernst Alt and Arnold Renz performed the rite 67 times over the first half of 1976. Some of the   sessions took up to four hours. Forty-two sessions were recorded on tape. Michel's recorded voice can still send shivers up your spine. It is the  voice of a demon, growling, barking, inhuman -- and surprisingly like  the voice of Linda Blair in "The Exorcist," which had been released in  Germany two years earlier. 
 
Sometimes the demons identified themselves -- as Cain, Nero, Judas, Lucifer, Hitler and others -- and even answered the exorcists' questions,  
explaining what  was wrong with the church or why they were in Hell.

"People are stupid as pigs,"  spat Hitler. "They think it's all  over after death. It goes on." Judas said  Hitler was nothing but a "big mouth" and had "no real say" in Hell. 

Anyway, it wasn't the exorcism that killed Anneliese Michel. 
 
At some point she began talking increasingly about dying to atone for  the wayward youth of the day and the apostate priests of the modern church, 
and refused to eat. Though she had received treatment for epilepsy, by this
time, at  her own request, doctors were no longer being consulted. 

She, her parents and the exorcists decided to rely completely on exorcism. By the time Michel died of starvation, she weighed only 68 pounds. 

After her death, the Anneliese Michel trial also set reason against faith. 
 
"I personally believe that this case was handled in such a way as to
play down the reality of the Devil," says Norbert Baumert, Jesuit
priest and chairman  of the theological commission of the
Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Germany,  which cannot perform
exorcism but practices "prayers for deliverance" from  "demonic
nuisance."  
 
The trial went to the heart of faith: If the Bible is true, then the miracles must have really happened, and Satan must be real. 
 
But it's not easy preaching the existence of the Devil to one of the  most secularized countries in Europe. A study by research institute
Infratest and published in the German newsweekly Der Spiegel last month
showed that even among  churchgoers, approximately a third of baptized
Catholics and half of baptized  Protestants do not believe in life after death. 

"I understand the complaint that German theologians are too rational," Says Klemens Richter, professor for liturgical science  in Muenster. "But exorcism is all about helping the sick. In Anneliese  Michel's case, the  sickness was supported. When I go to a patient and support her in her delusion, she gets the impression that she really is possessed." 

Exorcism is far more widespread today than most people imagine. According to Richter, there are about 70 practicing exorcists in France and just as many employed in Italy. In July this year, a congress in Poland was reportedly attended by about 350 practicing exorcists. 

Germany is the major European exception. Here, there are only two or three practicing exorcists, and though they have the approval of their bishops, they operate in secret. 

"Secularization has the church in its grip," says Ulrich Niemann, a Jesuit priest, medical doctor and psychiatrist who often has been called into exorcism cases by clergymen. "We do a lot for the Third World, but little for faith in a transcendent  God. . . . The German church is far too cerebral." 
 
Niemann doesn't consider himself an exorcist and doesn't perform the Roman ritual of 1614. "As a doctor, I say there is no such thing as possession," he says. "In my view, these patients are mentally ill. I pray with them, but that alone doesn't help. You have to deal with them as a psychiatrist. But at the  same time, when the patient comes from Eastern Europe and believes that he's been impaired by evil, it would be a mistake to ignore his belief system." 


After the Michel trial, German bishops and theologians formed a commission
to review the exorcism rite, and in 1984 they petitioned Rome to change it. 

The heart of the problem, they found, was the practice of speaking directly or "imperatively" to the Devil, that is, "I command thee, unclean spirit . . . "  That part of the rite seemed to do the most damage, since it confirmed to the patient
that he or she truly was possessed. 

The Germans didn't get what they wanted. 

"We were astonished when Rome issued a changed exorcism formula in 1999 which left open the possibility of speaking to the Devil directly," says Richter. "But  you can't  know for certain that a patient is truly possessed of  the Devil." 

Today, 30 years after Michel's death, with both exorcists and her father
also dead (her mother couldn't be reached for this article), Michel is
still revered by small groups of Catholics who believe she atoned for
wayward priests and sinful youth, and honor her as an unofficial saint. 

"Buses, often from Holland, I think, still come to Anneliese's grave," Barthel says. "The grave is a gathering point for religious outsiders. They write notes with
requests and thanks for her help, and leave them on the grave. They pray, sing and travel on."

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