Description

Can ghosts make you sick? That is the belief of many indigenous cultures across North America and throughout the world. This episode I compare and contrast those beliefs as well as provide an explanation of what could be going on and why Western medicine fails to address these complaints.

Links.

* Spirit Possession Around the World

* Issues in the Diagnosis of Native American Culture-Bound Syndromes

* Grief Disorder

* Ghost Illness by Putsch

* Culture Bound Syndromes

* Evil Spirits in Tuva

* Juwarri in Australia

* Strigoi in folklore

* Jerry Marzinsky

* On the Psychology of Demon Possession

Music by Caffeine Creek Band:Find them on Facebook!Find them on Pixabay!

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