Lucy Furr brought topic of exorcism up at the dinner table. I would have given her my patented “WTF?” look but my face was happily buried in my food. She talked about listening to a recording of a russian exorcism and the horrific sounds that came with it. With my interest piqued, a quick google revealed the clip at About.com: Paranormal Phenomena.
In May 1st 2004, Eugene Safronov, an assistant to one of the exorcists in the Russian Orthodox Church, made a chilling recording of an actual exorcism that he bore witness to. A 16-year old girl is being held down in a chair by her mother whilst a priest stands over her reading the rite of exorcism. As he proceeds, the girl starts to struggle as if the priest’s words are burning her.
The girl struggles violently, her groans becoming inhuman howls and deep, guttural moans of psychological pain. Then she lashes out at the priest, and in a voice that seems not to be her own, spits words of defiance.
Toward the end of the recording, the girl, with an unearthly voice, shouts something in Russian at the priest. The translation, Eugene says, is, “I am not leaving her! I am not!”
Click play to listen to the extraordinary recording. WARNING: If you are easily upset or have a nervous disposition this may lead to a pants-shitting experience. I was fine as I had done a poo earlier.
That was pretty freaky. I’m off to my happy place now.
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sounds like a very bad horror movie… exorcism my a55
That’s the kind of stuff that makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck. The orthodox prayers in the background are legitimate and if you’ve ever been at an actual exorcism you’ll know they can be quite violent. To answer your next question, yes, I’ve been at one.
Deems, care to give out more details about the exorcism? I would love to know.
Was at a wedding where a guest went berserk in the female bathrooms – broke all the mirrors, cut herself, made pentagrams with her blood on the walls – eventually got a priest in to do his thing and calm her down. The screaming and speaking in tongues kinda freaked people out.
Greeks (and other faiths) also believe in the evil eye which is also removed from the afflicted person through prayer (although it can be done without a priest). I’ve been affected by the evil eye twice in my lifetime.
That wedding incident would definitely freak me the fuck out.
When you were vexed with the evil eye, how did it manifest? Did you get sick?
It happened overnight, on our honeymoon of all places. Cold sweat, extreme headaches, nausea. Went through to my folks place, who called a family member over the phone who said the prayers, had a bath and later that afternoon I felt normal again.
Deems: My neck hairs stood up as well. I watched it around midnight when all the house was in darkness and everyone had gone to bed.