COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE INTERPRETATION OF CASES OF POLTERGEIST IN BRAZIL AND ARGENTINA

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a religious environment.
The third case developed in 1978 at a small village of Covunco Abalo(Neuquen
ce)in a very poor home where L.B.a boy aged 12,1ived with his grandparents.He
iver met his father and his mother had left him there when he was very little.
Lrcumstances were as usual :pieces of furniture moving by themselves,mattresses
ankets falling,stones thrown by nobod,y,handfule of soil hitting them on their
These events aroused fears in the family and neighbours .The Priest of the re -
lentiago Sarriegui,and the Psychologist Alberto Arias,calmed them down and the
1ena disappeared.There were no hallucinations of any kind like seeing demons
zits or dead people.
POLTERGEIST IN BRAZIL AND ARGENTINA
Prof. Lic. NOVILLO PAULI, ENRIQUE
INSTITUTE FOR PARAPSYCHOLOGY - CATH.UNIV.OF
CORDOBA, ARMNTINA
The cases presented by some investigators in Tokyo show almost identical Pht they are given a different interpretation.This interpretation reveals the
Abstract s Various streams of interpretation of the poltergeist are analysed
how the pressure exerted by the environment can lead to vicious conclusions 16
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ing evidence. :den atmosphere,fear of magic,witchcraft,occult powers.Offeringe to the devil
In the First Part I will present three cases of poltergeist in Argentina
-i observed in public places on Friday night;there are thousands of UMbanda cs
which I was asked to intervene. In the Second Part I will analyse the cases 4 meetings(Brazilian spiritism,a mixture of primitive afrioan religions,chia
ted in the Third International Congress on Psychotronic Research,held in To spiritism-superstitions).Tbere are stalls displaying coloured candles,ribbns
es,soils,waters and so forth,at every body's hand.These objects are supposed
10 The three cases in Argentina developed in environments socially and 80 effective to dominate the forces of nature and spirits.Once they have been aa
', ,their power can be used at will in rituals which are believed to be and ac-
cally different. a- The first case took place in a middle-class family,P.B.,1'
ved in the city of Cordoba,in 1973.The father was a qualified worker in a car as black and white magic. One can also see and buy images of afrioan gods,the
tory.The phenomena consisted in the familiar falling of stones,objects movin with horns,legs of goats,tail,dark fur.These shops stand everywhere,visited by
ound without being touched by human hands,appearance and disappearance of mo)a
-children and grown-ups,and what they sell can be frti?quently seen in homes.
yd,Olothes and so onTlevitation of objects,spomtaneus fire.These abnormaliti is atmosphere exerts a permanent psychological pressure on the population at
ted for over a year and was studied by a team of Psychiatrists,Physicians andises ...
acial levels.Therefore one should not be surprised if the interpretation given
cbologists from the Institute for Parapsycholo of the Catholic University gy of poltergeist is as the one presented in Tokyot"Some evidences of evil as
doba.A proper psychotherapeutic treatment both of the stressed twelve-v 6at a distance induced by means of magical procedures"(7),"by macumbeiros(black
who was adopted and the family put an end to the phenomena.They experienced li
'-ur--?1 sorcerers)that can be found in terreires de quimbanda(a Place specialized in
procedures)in Brazil"(7).The authors explain that there are various reasons
of great stress but they knew how to keep calm,and being catholic,they gave se?pie resort to these proceduressthreats,love and elimination of enemies etc.
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thing a correet interpretation.There were no vism10 or audible hallucinations;.13...
seeing or hearing strange beings. c, i finally saY:"the consequences are usually terrible"(7).Thus the authors
wives spoil the presentation and interpretation of the data with their credull
b- The second case took place in Santa Fe city,in 1975 and it lasted for overt? acceptance of the cause originating the phenomena:the threat by an enemy and
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Mtrdance to the Macumba in order to use its magical procedures.Tbey do not stop
month.The family A.M.had a lover incomeithe father was a traveling salesman
od products.Tle phenomena consisted in the spontaneous appearance of blood otil.al jze objectively and quietly other possible causes of the poltergeist:11ST%,
gious images.First,this occurred with an image of Our Lady,about 15 cms.tall.ta ,suggestions and the contradictions exposed in the papers.They accept as absa
The disturbances ceased after a Candomb14 group(Afro-Brazilian religion)per-
flowed between her hands joined over her chest,as if praying.The other imagjb:
rituals in the home.Some mediume and sorcerers confirmed that the
two crucifixes made of plastic,about 10 cms.tall.Blood appeared where the n___
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re and ran do the arms and feet.On one ()cession the phenomena took place wi-1117? na were being provoked by terreiro procedures..."(7).They do not study if
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the Biochemists Dr.E.Molina an vcd Dr.C.Zapata were holding the crucifixes in essation was due to a real and objective action of exorcism or if,considering
4:,i.vonment the people live in,it was a psychological conditioning that put an
hands in order to get samples of the blood and, analyse it.The source was a t
ter control,and there the phenomena repeated with other images.It was possiblk_ j even accept the actual existence of a being created by popular folklore
year-old girl who worked in the house as a maid.She was sent to a school forth:ne phenomena.
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prove that the blood type taken from the images and the girl 's was the .
same47 which they attribute characteristics which are contradictory.They speak of
used by tate of great stress experienced by tar? ' real agent that obeys the sorcerer"(7).BUt on the other hand ,they claim
phenomena might have been ca
M.famili because of the illness and operation of the youngest child,and by t!his incorporeal agent has been described by several witnesses asinsemi-human
lar case in other town.The girl had pseudoperceptions of seeing and hearing at" having dark fur,claws and horns,fetid smell"(7).How can an incorporeal agent
Vino body! )have corporeal characteristics at the same time?We might be dealing
an evident eidetic projection,hallucination,of the images of "exuan(devil)they
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, ausion. In order to study and elucidate poltergeist cases,it is necessary to
In another paper presented by them it is easy to detect the atmosphere op in mind the various approohes given by other authors or streams of analyses,
sive fear in which people lives with all the psychological consequonces brood of merely considering one aspect and interpretation of the problem.
bout by the belief of invisible beings who try to do harm,to destroy them for
ken made during their past lives about which they know nothing. Before acceptiI0MAPHY
all these serious matters,they should prove them through evidences.But this %an we e
1 xplain the poltergeist?" by A.R.G.Omen. A Helix Press Book, Garret Pu-
%? done;everything is taken for granted.They feel submitted by powers to such am
ant that those who suffer them can not overcome them.These are conditionings If.lcations, N.Y. 1964
CD disposing toward all kinds of suggestions,illusions,hallucinations,fears.ln tcri::d7 llite:rt:te;,by14itilliam Roll. A Signet Book. New American Library, Bergen-
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CD per it is said thatOsome members of the group displayed a behaviour that sugL_
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09 the presence of foreing personalities.These personalities were induced by blaZ:958 ford Disturbances" by G.Pratt & W.Roll. Journal of Parapsychology,Vol.
gic procedures to influence and/or create trouble to the patients,hate them
ay,iatt!Nisa over Matter" by Louisa Rhine. Mc Willan,N.Y.,1970
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give up their destructive action.There are a series of contradictory sup
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persuaree Physical Phenomena of Mysticism" by Herbert Thurston. Burns Oates, London
l'???? typical spiritist meeting where one talks with dead people and tray to
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re so on.It is necessary that everything be proved to be true ,and. not merely taketts7crole:r Buenos Aires,1975
01of the "Third International Congress on Psychotronic Research" pegs.
CSI granted(7).
I.-? 16, 481, 657. Tokyo, 1977
CD In another case there are a number of hallucinations provoked or favoured'
9 this atmosphere of fear,exorcisms and credulity of a very special community,t
CID cal of Brazil.Here they see an"animal similar to a gorillanduring the disturb.:
01 other times they only see parts"like a hand of a monkey"etc.(7) The authors re
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CI to the conclusionOas the majority of RSPg,this poltergeist suggests the influl
re of evil action at a distance,induced by means of. terreiro rituals(black magic),
'Ci sions of animal-shaped beings".(7)
o Discussion. Having analyzed the cases presented and compared them with the all
7 ? bibliography on the subject,A.R.Owen(1),W.Roll(2),G.Pratt(3),L.Rhine(4),ILThul
CSI (5),E.Novillo Paulf(6),we come to the conclusion that the more primitive or ol;
ghosts etc.The cases presented by the authors above mentioned,tell and analyze
the case,the more its interpretation attributes the phenomena to demons,spiri)
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.%? nomena which are very similar to those in Brazil,but their interpretation is 1
ly different *the source is the human being himself. They develop within anothq
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CSI community. W.Roll says in his book:"If poltergeist phenomena say anything, is 4
0D bout spirits,demons or ghosts but about human personality"(2).
OD When referring to voices,communicatione etc.A.R.Oven asserts:"There is not
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0D one case in which the spiritist hypothesis has been proved"(1).
OTD For these authors as well as for psychiatrists,the fact that the supposed:
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rite succeed one another when the medium communicates,would prove that we are
ling with splits of his(her)personality and his(her)unconscious creations.His
8 dramatized ideas convey concepts of the environment in which he(she)lives.
LL In addition to the stress provoked by the conflicting situation with the e
^ ronment or with himself,feelinge of real or imaginary guilt,which would be the
0D ce of the poltergeist phenomena,the interpretation given by those who interve
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2 their hallucinations and supposed messages from spirits,make the problem even
acute,thus creating a vicious circle.
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