Spirit Possession and Bewitchment Presenting as Physical Illness: Report of four Cases in Nepalese Males
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Spirit possession and bewitchment presenting as physical illness: report of four cases in Nepalese males.
Introduction Witchcraft ideation is common in Nepal, among many third world countries and many popular healers practise there, including the jhankri or spirit medium, the tantrik or healer practised in tantrism and the deuta, a healer possessed by a mother goddess, Hartimata 1. Spirit possession is a recognised phenomenon in Nepal and carries no connotations of psychiatric disease. Actual or pr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0035-8665,2052-0468
DOI: 10.1136/jramc-133-03-07