07-02-2008, 07:17 PM
Also in Spain, this possesions are being increased, maynly in Galicia.
I know there were rites in the ancient greece, in fact, the word exorcism cames from greek. But psicology was not studied in this time and epilectic, psicotic, etc people were "exortised". This is a fact that happened along time, even in non christian or judean cultures, just because people didn't know this kind of illness, and the only explanation they found to this is the possession of an evil spirit.
I know there were rites in the ancient greece, in fact, the word exorcism cames from greek. But psicology was not studied in this time and epilectic, psicotic, etc people were "exortised". This is a fact that happened along time, even in non christian or judean cultures, just because people didn't know this kind of illness, and the only explanation they found to this is the possession of an evil spirit.