Wired for Weird
I saw this news about the Karnataka act against inhuman practices and black magic finally becoming law: “The act bans performing any black magic, inhumane act and evil practices in search of treasure or bounty, tantric acts which include physical and sexual assault, practices such as parading people naked, ostracising a person in the name of a ritual and encouraging inhumane acts during said rituals, exorcism, assaulting people under the pretext of exorcism, misinformation and creating a panic-like situation under the pretext of ghosts and black magic and others.” It brought back memories of this podcast on the strange impact of that famous horror movie, The Exorcist . In case you don’t know, that’s a movie from the 1970’s about a girl who got possessed, on whom a priest performed exorcism to finally rid her of the demon. As a consultant priest for the movie, Tom Bermingham said: “Making the movie was strange enough. But the aftermath was completely bizarre.” Bizarre how...