I'd be very interested in hearing a post from you about it!
Maybe the problem with telling exorcism stories these days lies in the fact that while everyone's afraid of possession as a concept (because it echoes mental illness, but without even the possibility of diagnosis and cure), no one wants to say straight out: Oh yeah, that's what it was--a ghost, a demon, Satan, God. Because that way lies being known as a proselytizing Fundie, so instead you get an awful lot of hmmm, ha, not actually sure WHAT that is/was. Maybe that guy was just crazy! Yeah, that's the ticket! Which is why stories like Noroi are so appealing, at least to me--they come from cultures A) you don't know the basics of (unless it is your culture) and B) where stuff like this isn't instantly debunked, either.
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Maybe the problem with telling exorcism stories these days lies in the fact that while everyone's afraid of possession as a concept (because it echoes mental illness, but without even the possibility of diagnosis and cure), no one wants to say straight out: Oh yeah, that's what it was--a ghost, a demon, Satan, God. Because that way lies being known as a proselytizing Fundie, so instead you get an awful lot of hmmm, ha, not actually sure WHAT that is/was. Maybe that guy was just crazy! Yeah, that's the ticket! Which is why stories like Noroi are so appealing, at least to me--they come from cultures A) you don't know the basics of (unless it is your culture) and B) where stuff like this isn't instantly debunked, either.