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Maria Ilenia Politanò, when superstition kills

In short On 12 September 1994 Maria Ilenia Politanò, a 50-day-old baby, arrived dead at the hospital in Reggio Calabria.

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In short Between 1632 and 1634, in Loudun, in Poitou, the Ursuline nuns led by Mother Superior Jeanne des Anges

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In short In November 1565, in Vervins, Picardy, Nicole Obry, or Aubry, a girl of 15 or 16, began to

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In short On 18 September 1990 in Almansa, Spain, 11-year-old Rosita was killed by her mother Rosa, a folk healer,

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It is believed that, from the top of the scientific knowledge patiently acquired in centuries of human history, superstition –

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In short In 1980 in Brookfield, Connecticut, the family of 12-year-old David Glatzel turned to the demonologists Ed and Lorraine

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In short In 1906 Clara Germana Cele, a 16-year-old South African orphan studying at St. Michael’s Mission in Natal, was

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In short In 1928, at the Franciscan convent of Earling, Iowa, the Capuchin Theophilus Riesinger performed a 23-day exorcism on

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In short In 1949 a 14-year-old boy from Maryland, known by the pseudonym Roland Doe, underwent a series of exorcisms

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In short Anneliese Michel was a young German Catholic woman who suffered from epilepsy and psychiatric disorders. Convinced she was

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In short “Julia” is the pseudonym of an American woman, a former member of a satanic group, whose case was

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