Approveg@qf OmPARAT y %ejS4g@,,Ng14p41W t'.;aP.Erp "-7.92R-0,0070036"02"phenomena ocaurred POLTERMIST IN BRAZIL AND ARGENTIYA I a religiou a environment. The third case developed in 1978 at a small village of Covunco Ab&4o(Ifouq Prof. Lie. NOVILLO PAULI, ENRIQpE @ce)in a very poor home where L.B.a boy aged 12,lived with his grandparente.He iver met his father and his mother had left him there when he was very little. !ances were as usual.,pieces of furniture moving by themselwa,mattresses N INSTITMTi FOR PARAPSYcHoL= - CATff,uNTV,.OF C ':'Is f. ank.t lling,stones thrown by nobody,handfuls of soil hitting them on their These events aroused fears in the family and neighbours.The Priest of the re CORDOBA, ARGLNTTITA ISantiago Sarriegui,and the Psychologist Alberto Arias,oalmed them down and the disappeared.Theme were no hallucinations of any kind like seeing demons ts or dead people. F @ The cases presented by some investigators in Tokyo show almost identical phl Abstract S Various streams of interpretation of the poltergeist are analysedi,@ut they are given a different interpretation. This interpretation reveals the how the pressure exerted by the environment can lead to vicious conclusions Ji'an atmospheratfear of magicgwitchcraft,occult powerB.Offerings to the devil ing evidence. I observed in public places on Friday night;there are thousands of Umbanda. cen In the First Part I will present three cases of poltergeist i?, Argentina meetings(Brazilian spiritism,a mixture of primitive afrioan religions,.bJ. which I was asked to intervene.in the Second part I will analyse the cases ted in the Third International Congress spiritism-superstitions).There are stalls displaying ooloured candles,rib @ on Psychotronic Researoh,held in TO es,soils.waters and so forth,at every body's hand.These objects are supposed 1' The three cases in Argentina developed in environments socially effective to dominate the forces of nature and spirits.Once they have been do and ec cally different. a- The first case took place in a middle-class family, p.B.,j their power can be used at will in rituals which axe believed to be and ao_ ved in the city of Cordoba,in 1973.The father was a qualified worker in a Es black and white magic. One can also see and buy images of african gods1the oar[ with horns,legs of goats,tail,dark fur.These shopp stand eveTywhere,visited by torY.The Phenomena consisted in the familiar falling of stones,objeot, mo,,n%hildren and grown-ups,and what they sell can be f@oquently seen in homes. aund without being touched by human hands,appearance and disappearance f Y5,016thes and so on;1evite-tion of 4Dbjeetatspozitaneus fire.Thesq abnolmoli"$is atmosphere exerts a permanent psychological pressure on the populationat a 126cd-ial levels. Therefore one should not be surprised if the interpretation given ted for over a Year and was studied by a team of Ps@ychiatri s ts, Physic ianp andse, of poltergeist is as the one Presented in Tokyot"Some, evidences of evil ac chologists from the Institute for parapsychology of the Catholic doba.A. Proper psychotherapeutic treatment both of the stressed tw University (Yat a distance induced by means of magical procedures" (7),11by macumbeiros (black elvo-year-ol? sorcerers)that can be found in terreiros de quimbanda(a Place specialized in who war. adopted and the family put an end to the phenomena.They experienced Iprocedures)in Brazil"(7).The authors explain that there are various reasons Of great stress but they knew how to keep calmland being catholic7they gave e oeople resort to these procedures:tbreats,love and elimination of enemies eto. thing a correct interpretation.There were no visual or audible hallucinations- seeing or hearing strange beings. ley finally say:11the consequences are usually terrible" (7) Thus the authors selves spoil the presentation and interpretation of the data with their creduli b- The second case took Place in Santa Fe citY7in 1975 an id acceptance of the cause originating the phenomenatthe threat by an enezu and .d it lasted for ovejfttendance to the Macumba, in order to use its magical procedures.They do not stop month.The family A.M.had a lo,,mr income3the father was a traveling salosman oialyze objectively ancl c od products.The phenomena consisted in the spontaneous appearance of blood on,... _Luietly other possible causes of the poltergeiat%RSPK, .estions and the contradictions exposed in the paperB.They accept as abso ,ugp gious images. First, this occurred with aai image of Our Lady,about 15 cms-tall.-.-,,, d' turbances ceased after a Candombl4 group (Afro-Brazilian religion) flowed between her hands joinocl ove, 'L..e is Per- r her chest,as if praying,The other image,id P _morcizing rituals in the home.Some mediums and sorcerers confirmed that the two crucifixes made of plastic,about 10 ome.tall.Blood appeared where the nail na were being -provoked by terreiro procedurGB..."(7).Thw do not study if Ifte re and ran down the arms and feet.0n one ocassion the phenomena took place whcessation was due to a real and objective action of exorcism or if,considering the Biochemists Dr.E.Moline, and Dr-C-Zapatft were holding the crucifixes in tb hands in order to get samples of the blood and analyse it.The source was a t @nvironment the people live in.it was a psychological conditioning that put an io the phenomena. Year-old girl who worked in the house as a maid-She was sent to a school forthey even accept the actual existence of a being created by popular folklore ter control,and there the phenomena repeated with other images.1t was Possib:@. which they attribute characteristics which are contradictory.They speak of prove that the blood type taker, fl-cm the images and the airl1r was the same.1corporeal agent that obeys the sorcerer" (7) -But on the other hand they claim phenomena might have been caused by a state of great stress experienced by tb@this incorporeal agent has been described by several witnesses ass"semi-human M.famili because of the illness and operation of the youngest child.and by a lar case in other town.The girl had Paeudoperceptions; of seeing and hearing 4. having dark fur,..I.w. and horns,fetid smell"(7),11OW can an incorporeal agent no body!)have corporeal characteristic& at the some time?We might be dealing an evident eidetic projection,hallucination,of the images of "exus"(devil)they 332 Approved For Release 2001 F 333 .-re used to seeing. "lusion. in order to study and elucidate poltergeist caBes,it is necessary to In another Paper presented by them it is easy to detect the atmosphere of- in mind the various approches given by other authors Or streams of analyses, siV0 fear in which people lives with all the psychological consequences brougie&d 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 foT kes made during their past lives about which they know nothing. Before acceptjOGRAM all these serious matterr9they should prove them through evidences.But this iL%;an we explain the poltergeist?" by A.R.G.Owen. A Helix Press Book, Garret Pu- done;everything is taken for granted.They feel submitted by powers to such an llications, N.Y. 1964 ent that those who suffer them can not overcome them.These are conditionings @The Poltergeist" by William Roll. A Signet Book. New American Libraryt Bergen- disposing toward all kinds of suggestions,illusione,hallucinations,fears.In t &ld New Jersey, 1974 per it is said that:11some members of the group displayed a behaviour that sugL_ ' ford Disturbances" by G.Pratt & W.Roll. Journal of Parapsychology,Vol. the presence of foreing personalities.Theae personalities were induced b bl JMe Sea ' ai-2,1958 gic procedures to influence and/or create trouble to the pationts,hate them % 0 London - @- ver Ylatter" by Louisa Rbine. MoMillan,N,Y.,1970 de references to a relationship with them in part liveB"(7).That is to say,it ITbe Physical Phenomena of ylysticism" by Herbert Thurston, Burns Oates' typical spiritist meeting where one talks with dead people and tray to per" to give up their destructive action.There are a series of contradicto 952 ry suppoa.@ - pen6menos parapsicol6gicos.Psi on el Laboratorioll by Enrique Novillo Paull) as incorporeal beings suffering headaohes,stomach-aches,having sexual desires@'Los so on.It is necessary that everything be proved to be true,and 'not merely t0epOlUSZ, Buenos Aires,1975 pair, granted(7). proceedings of the 'Third International Congress on PsychotrOnic Research' @6, 481, 657. Tokyo, 1977 Q In another case there are a number of hallucinations provoked or favoured'i Q this atmosphere of fear,exorcisms and credulity of a very special communityltu cal of Brazil.Here they see an"animal similar to a gorilla"during the disQQ other times they only see parts"like, a hand of a monkey'leto.(7) The authors rel to the conclusion:11as the majority of RSPK,thiB poltergeist suggests the infl4 of evil action at a distaricstinduced by means of.terreiro rituals(black magic)! sions of animal-shaped beirigs".(7) Discussion. Having analyzed the cases Presented and compared them with the ab lk bibliography on the subject,A.R,Owen(l),W.Roll(2)~G,Pratt(3)gL,Rhine(4),H.MU ) C*4 - (5),E.Novillo Paulf(6),we come to the conclusion that the more primitive or 0@ Q the ca'se,the moTe its interpretation attributes the phenomena to d8MK)nS0P1r1 ghosts etc.The cases presented by the authors above mentioned,tell and an 1) Q nomena which are very similar to those in Brazil,but their interpretation is V_ ly different:the source is the human being himself. Q They develop within anot ) Q tural background and the way they axe focused agrees with the oultural level C*4 community. W.Roll says in his bookt"If poltergeist phenomena say anything,is bout spirita,demons or ghosts but about human personality"(2). U) When referring to voices7communicationB etc.A.R,Owen assertst"There is notl one case in which the spiritist hypothesis has been proved" m. I For these authors as well as for psychiatrists,the fact that the supposedi rits succeed one another when the medium communicates,would prove that we arej ling with splits of his(her)personality and his(her)unconscious areations.His(i 0 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 -0 ronment or with himself,feelings of real or imaginary guilt,which would be th,' (1) os of the poltergeist phenomenalthe interpretation > given by those who interve their hallucinations and supposed messages from 0 spirits,make the problem even@ L_ acutelthus creating a vicious circle. CL CL 334 335 17 W43