Friday, December 02, 2005

Exorcisms and Demonic Possessions 

The tags i just posted on Yuns blog made me write a short post about how afraid i am of movies about exorcism. The very first movie i watched about exorcism is of course the famous The Exorcist. What really scares me about that movie is the girls face, the colour of her skin, all the cuts she has on her body, her eyes and the freaking voice. THAT voice! I will never forget. I downloaded The Exorcist: The Beginning, recently, which is the prequel to The Exorcist. Again, the person who was possessed by the devil was a woman. seriously, its farking scary. The face, eyes and the voice. Very similar to the girls face in The Exorcist. After watching the prequel, i swore to myself that i will never ever watch any movie from this series. After watching, i couldnt sleep for a few days, i kept hallucinating that the eerie face will appear & glow in the dark and really scare the shit out of me until my soul will literally jump out of my body out of fright. Im serious, thats how scared i am. I don't know why, other horror movies don't creep me out at all, not even the original version of the famous horror movie back in the 80s called The Phantasm.

The reason why i am so afraid of movies of this nature is because these things are existent. There was a lady in my church who was possessed. She is christian, however, she does not have a strong faith. Her mother who is Taoist/Buddhist (im not sure) lived with her. She kept an array of idols on the altar in the living room. So anyway, whenever this lady attended church or home cell, she would always appear very restless. Incessant coughing, constant fidgeting. No one took notice. She would also fall sick very often for no apparant reason (1 of the members of our church is her doctor). I don't know how the entire situation became really bad, but what i heard was that my church pastor went to visit her at her place 1 day, and he felt very spooked out even before he went through the door. After that visit, the other elders were informed and they came to a conclusion that she was possessed. They also found out So, they performed an exorcism on her.

During the procedure, the pastor and elders laid their hands on her to pray. She then began to speak in Mandarin in a very low, coarse, male voice. Apparantly, the voice was very angry and it was cursing and swearing at them. Soon after, other signs appeared. She began to writhe on the floor like a snake, and her pupils kept changing from normal to all white. I cant remember the other details. After they successfully cast the spirit out of her, when came back to consciousness, she had no no recollection and no idea about anything that had happened during the manifestation. They also found out that the spirit came from one of the idols on the altar, which i will not specify in case some people get sensitive about this topic.

Well anyway, my parents told me about it quite long after the incident actually occured. Cos it was suppose to be confidential. My dad was still serving at church then, but during the period of the inciden he wasn't active, so he didn't get first hand info about it. And also, only those who had a really strong faith were alloweed to be present during the exorcism to help and pray, because if there is someone in the room who does not have a strong faith, the cast out spirit is very likely to manifest in that person. Woah...if that happens...oh my lord.......

Ok great, now i am creeped out again dammit. Anyway for those who are interested and have watched The Exorcism of Emily Rose, you can go watch The Exorcist: The Beginning too.

tw|nKled by t|aRa on 12:39 AM