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Hollywood to tarnish the story of Anneliese Michel?
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This 22-year-old woman was a student at the University of W�rzburg and in the late 1 970s exhibited symptoms — including spasms, writhing, speaking in devilish tongues — construed by her devout Catholic family as diabolic possession. The archbishop of W�rzburg concurred with their diagnosis and entrusted two priests to perform the Exorcism from the 17th-century Rituale Romanum. To the embarrassment of the church, the victim died of starvation during the procedures, for the exorcists had added the discipline of fasting to the other means of driving out the demons. Insult was added to embarrassment when the district attorney's investigation and a trial found the two priests guilty of negligent manslaughter.
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It began in 1968, in Bavaria, Germany... when Anneliese Michel (aka Emily Rose) - a very religious girl) has a seizure. Paralysed and shaking she can’t call her 3 sisters, or her parents (Josef and Anna) for help. A neurologist at the Psychiatric Clinic Würzburg diagnosed Epilepsy Type 'Grand Mal'. Depressions, often occurring after those epilepsy attacks, have not been recognized.
After a long stay at the hospital, Anneliese begins to see devilish images during her daily praying. In the fall of 1970 she starts believing that she is possessed, as she couldn't find any other reason for the images she sees. And now, voices are following her, saying to her, that she will "stew in hell".
In the summer of 1973 her parents ask different pastors for an exorcism. The Catholic chaplains reject and recommend, to continue the medication on the now 20 year old Anneliese.
In September 1975, the Bishop of Würzburg, Josef Stangl, assigns Father Arnold Renz and Pastor Ernst Alt with the order, to perform "The Great Exorcism" on Anneliese Michel. The basis for this ritual is the Rituale Romanum, still valid Canon Law from the 17th century.
At that point some of her behavioural characteristics included:
* insulting, beating and biting family members
* refusal to eat regular meals (claimed the demons wouldn’t allow her)
* consumption of spiders, flies, coal, and her own urine :-X
* destruction of crucifixes, paintings of Jesus, and rosaries
* tearing of clothes from her body
* urinating on the floor
* acts of self-mutilation
So you have to admit that even if it’s not proof of possession, it’s seriously messed up, or at least very messy.
The 23 year old student, Anneliese Michel, dies on the 1st of July 1976 after an exorcism that lasted about 9 months...
A little bit before these events took place, William Friedkin’s 'The Exorcist' came to the cinemas in Germany (1974), and started a paranormal hysteria all over the country. Psychiatrists all over Europe, reported of an increase of obsessive ideas in their patients.
For the Prosecutors, the factual situation is more than bizarre. It took almost 2 years, until the "Klingenberg Case" was brought to court. Anneliese’s parents and the 2 exorcists were accused of negligent homicide. There were only 2 questions to answer.
1. What caused the death of Anneliese Michel?
2. Who was responsible for it?
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Emily Rose: The Real Story of Anneliese Michel's Exorcism
