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Report page '''Culture-Bound Illness Ghost Sickness'''

The most affected groups of the culture-bound illness called Ghost Sickness, are the Native Americans. This illness causes a person to feel the presence of a spirit such as a ghost, demon, angel, or anything like an out of body experience. Some of the symptoms one might have are: ♦Fear ♦Nightmares ♦Thrashing of body parts ♦Vomiting blood

Some of the ways to stop the symptoms of Ghost Sickness are: ♦Taking medicine ♦Use of Perfume remedy ♦Partaking of Holy water, salt water remedy ♦Applying Holy ash

Ghost sickness is spread by a spirit known as Buruburu. A person must make contact with someone who already has ghost sickness or a ghost's body. A few symptoms are nightmares and irrational fears. After all the symptoms, wounds mimicking the existence ghost had received would appear on the victim without a cause. (Supernaturalwiki)

Sources: Ghost Illness: A Cross-Cultural Experience with the Expression of a Non-Western Tradition in Clinical Practice (2007). "Ghost Sickness". Accessed July 18, 2012 from Drum Lunmon website 

Culture Bound Illness (2007). "Ghost Sickness". Accessed July 18, 2012 from Vision and Psychosis. 

Spiritual Remedies for Physical Illnesses Caused by Ghosts (2012). "Ghost Sickness". Accessed July 18, 2012 from Spiritual Research Foundation. 

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