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And sometimes family would pray to the spirits to kill off a girl child so they could have a male child.
Of course, there are no deities or supernatural spirits or angels, etc.
Chapter three: Joseph Nyamwanda Jura Ondijo treated patients outside of Kisumu, Kenya for AIDS, tuberculosis, infertility, mental illness, evil spirits.
Two of his wives were brought to him suffering from infertility and he cured them, three for evil spirits, one for an asthmatic condition and severe chest pain and two wives Ondijo claims he took for love, paying their families a total of 16 cows.
One wife deserted him and another passed away during treatment for evil spirits.
A time for even grimmer stuff than that, like autopsies and embalmings in Isabel Allende's "The House of the Spirits."
And I think that we will see that we will be able to chase more of these evil spirits out from the brain as time goes on, and the consequence of that, of course, will be that we will be able to help many more patients.
You know, ever since man had any notion that some of his other people, his colleagues, could be different, could be strange, could be severely depressed or what we now recognize as schizophrenia, he was certain that this kind of illness had to come from evil spirits getting into the body.
So the way of treating these diseases in early times was to, in some way or other, exorcise those evil spirits.
When medicine became somewhat scientific, in about 450 BC, with Hippocrates and those boys, they tried to look for herbs, plants that would literally shake the bad spirits out.
And the herbals, the botanical books of up to the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance, are filled with prescriptions for causing convulsions to shake the evil spirits out.
In his book on primitive culture, he says the heart of religion is what he called animism, that is, the belief in spiritual agency, belief in spirits.
So these were not people who were isolated from our world, but nevertheless, for them, the gods and the spirits are still very much there, and when we were on the bus going back and forth to the various parts of the [ceremony], they prayed not just in a generic way but for the safety of the journey, and they meant it, and when they said to me that my mother, the bridegroom's [grandmother], was with us, they didn't mean it figuratively.
But we'll also talk about those other beautiful things that my African ancestors brought with them: a love of landscape, a respect for the spirits that live in trees and rocks and water, the ethnobotanical aspects, the plants that we use for medicinal purposes.
She quizzes her students on the metu, the body’s vessels that transport blood, air, urine, and even bad spirits.
He believes, with veneration and reverence, in what his ancestors and the spirits taught him.
And I'm tired of living like this, going into town after town with people standing around on corners with holes where eyes used to be, their spirits damaged.
The support staff, the friends and family, people who lifted our spirits, and never let us give up on our ambitious endeavors.
Humanity takes center stage at TED, but I would like to add a voice for the animals, whose bodies and minds and spirits shaped us.
That is now my new research I'm doing on spirituality, on new spirits around the world.
For scientists, it can be hard to fully grasp how a piece of wood can be a living god or how spirits surround bones.
They speculate about the supernatural, maybe the spirits of the departed walking among us.
They're full of evil spirits and ghosts."
It may be easier to blame sleep paralysis on evil spirits because what's actually happening in your brain is much harder to explain.
Because we do live in a world where shamans still sing to the spirits of the jungle, where rivers do boil and where legends do come to life.
There's just one problem; the inscriptions told of the altar's curse: the spirits of the city's King and Queen possessing intruders and leading them to their doom through deception.
Around 4 a.m., I go to bed in low spirits.
Zoroastrians viewed them as spirits whose cries told of the cosmic struggle between darkness and light.
If you use other kinds of microbes, they will eat petroleum spirits and crude oil.
Roman reinforcements were returning from the Pontic wars, and the rebels’ ranks and spirits were broken.
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