4 Year Old Boy Dies During Exorcism

A 4-year-old boy sickened with pneumonia died in the Primorye region after being made to participate in an exorcism by a Korean shaman, news reports said Wednesday.

The parents of the child asked shaman So Dyavor, 59, and her husband, Kim Sende, 62, to perform a ritual to exorcise “evil spirits” that they believed were plaguing him, the local news web site Primamedia.ru reported.

The child stopped breathing during the ritual in the local village of Sergeyevka on Saturday.

No traces of violence were found on the boy's body, and forensic pathologists on Wednesday had not established what killed him.

It remains possible that the boy's pneumonia was the cause of his death, a police spokesman told RIA-Novosti.

The tabloid Tvoi Den identified the boy as Dmitry Kazachuk and said he arrived in Sergeyevka with a delegation of relatives that included his mother, aunt, uncle and grandmother.
The family intended to request help for the grandmother, who has diabetes, but So Dyavor told them that the entire family was jinxed and the boy had put a curse on them, the report said.

Nobody was present in the room when the shaman performed the exorcism on the boy, it said, without commenting on the role of So Dyavor's husband in the incident.

The local branch of the Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case into suspected negligent homicide, which is punishable with up to three years in prison, but has not charged anyone, Interfax said.

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Who'd have thought that religion is bogus and superstitious rituals don't work?

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My gosh..I can't believe some people still fall for this.
That is why some believe those of us in the western world are gods and can rise from the dead.
You can't change old beliefs.
So sad, that had he been treated at hospital, he might be alive today.

Originally posted by AccessDenied
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My gosh..I can't believe some people still fall for this.
That is why some believe those of us in the western world are gods and can rise from the dead.
You can't change old beliefs.
So sad, that had he been treated at hospital, he might be alive today.

Well I guess the reason people fall for this is because the phenomena of an entity possessing a human is very real. people simply cant differentiate between a real possesion and a cold...

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Any exorcist or other worth their salt knows that there are signs to look for that "may" indicate possession. It sounds like this boy was the unfortunate victim of the misreading of signs and should have been hospitalized.

Demons present in much different ways and usually there are several groups of signs which may be observed to indicate a true possession.

I'm sorry for this boy.

Originally posted by Kaytagg
Who'd have thought that religion is bogus and superstitious rituals don't work?

While religions around the world and many hardly worth following, the existence of demons is very real and not up for debate. Our understanding of them stems only from what Christianity and the other major religions observed throughout their dealings with them and we all know how tainted the church made things throughout history.

If you don't believe or haven't experienced anything - be happy and live your life.