Exorcism

My first reaction upon reading The Dom Post report of the trial for exorcism manslaughter was that at least when the US water boards, they don’t actually kill the detainee.

A teenager has told how she was pinned down, and water poured in her eyes and mouth to free her of the demon insider her.

She remembered saying, “I’m gonna die,” before blanking out in a ceremony in which another person is alleged to have drowned.

And

The recording was played in the High Court at Wellington yesterday where nine people are charged with the manslaughter of mother-of-two Janet Moses, 22, who the Crown says drowned during the same water-based exorcism ritual.

I find it hard to believe that nine adults could actually think that possession by demons or curses was literal, and that exorcism was the preferred response. And these people get a vote!