Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
Strange outbreak
Cebu Daily News
3:55 pm | Wednesday, September 25th, 2013
Reports of schoolchildren behaving strangely in what is often too quickly labeled demonic possession are not new in Cebu.
The latest incident happened Monday in Quiot High School in Cebu City?s south district. Eleven girls started screaming, flailing their arms, or speaking in a voice that was not theirs.
Was this demonic possession?
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But it?s about time school authorities, especially guidance counselors, adopt a protocol for cases like this that border on superstition -(the popular belief was that disturbing ?spirits? of a tree that was chopped down on campus triggered the ?attack?).
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Conditions of fear and stress among a group of impressionable youths, especially girls, are factors noted in various psychological studies of the phenomenon of mass hysteria. The behavior can be set off by one ?leader? and the suggestion could be so strong, that others involuntarily follow.
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Cebu Daily News
3:55 pm | Wednesday, September 25th, 2013
Reports of schoolchildren behaving strangely in what is often too quickly labeled demonic possession are not new in Cebu.
The latest incident happened Monday in Quiot High School in Cebu City?s south district. Eleven girls started screaming, flailing their arms, or speaking in a voice that was not theirs.
Was this demonic possession?
...
But it?s about time school authorities, especially guidance counselors, adopt a protocol for cases like this that border on superstition -(the popular belief was that disturbing ?spirits? of a tree that was chopped down on campus triggered the ?attack?).
...
Conditions of fear and stress among a group of impressionable youths, especially girls, are factors noted in various psychological studies of the phenomenon of mass hysteria. The behavior can be set off by one ?leader? and the suggestion could be so strong, that others involuntarily follow.
...
Read more: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/494889/strange-outbreak#ixzz2ftrnPNhj
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