Some of these sacras that Vanpool talked about in her article included narcotics that some shamans used to induce hallucinations or a trance like state (178). Vanpool used this information that she gathered to show both extremes of on the priest/shaman-healer scale. One of these case studies used in the article is over the Casas Grande hold many different sacras and images of anthropomorphic figures on most of the excavated pottery that seem to be fairly common for shamanistic cultures. The other case study looked at whether the Southwest pueblos were practicing a form of shamanism (185). Christina S. Vanpool use this case study to stress the "distinction between priest s and shaman-based religions is not a
Back in medieval Europe, there was a lack of medical knowledge therefore the preventions of catching the bubonic plague were very weird and some were very useless. Some preventions were to keep isolated in houses were everybody was healthy and was not sick. Some ran away leaving their families and houses escaping to the countryside. An extreme prevention was the flagellants which went round to towns beating themselves until they bled; this was done because to show remorse and regrets for the sins they did and that their pain would help God to stop the plague. “…they were men who did public penance and scourged themselves with whips of hard knotted leather with little iron spikes.
He would use drugs such as LSD to get them to lose their ego so they would do what he wanted. He also used isolation to keep them away from normal society. Manson preached a dogmatic version of the bible that the cult members believed to be true. 3. The type of people that were suspected to undergo Manson’s influence was usually weak-minded people who wanted acceptance.
We hunt for food and resources. In America, hunting is considered a sport, but not for the Indians. And since Martin said the keeper of the animal make the Indians sick, they go on holy war of revenge, and traded the fur of the animal to the English
This meant that these ill people had no choice but to go back home, which would have resulted in them spreading their diseases to people on the streets because they didn’t have proper medical care and weren’t under supervision and were not isolated from everyone else. However in the Islamic empire, they had hospitals that had separate wards for different diseases, this meant that people had specialist care because the different wards had different doctors which focused on different illnesses. They encouraged people to look after the sick
Monks believed people were only sick because God was punishing them for something they had done. The Church believed that illness was a physical sign of sin or weakness of the soul. Both severe physical and mental illnesses were blamed on oneself for taking the “wrong path” at some point in ones life. Some people in Europe blamed the Jews for poisoning the water or practicing witchcraft (Knox). But on the contrary, most public officials believed that it wasn’t revenge from God, it wasn’t the Jews or even a weakness of the soul, but just a disease (Knox).
They accused the Jews of trying to destroy the Christians. Some people even believed that the plague was caused by pockets of bad air released by earthquakes or by an unfavorable alignment of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars. (Kreis, Steven, 2006. “Satan Triumphant: The Black Death”) People wouldn’t bathe for fear of opening pores and thus allowing the epidemic to spread to themselves, and had poor hygiene in general. Some doctors even thought that bad odors would get rid of the disease so they smeared feces and urine on their patients, which produced the opposite effect, and spread the disease.
once a psychedelic is taken it completely disrupts normal communication According research and Google this drug seems to have a long lasting effect on people who are abusers in many ways. According to Live Science, “ many people report intensely spiritual experience while taking the drug and some studies suggest that one transcendent trip can alter a person's personalities on a long term basis.” Most individuals who have taken this drug are more likely open to a lot of new experience and are more aware and or appreciative of arts and emotion etc. Studies have shown that Psilocybin the main
Unlike the medieval times we have the science and medicine to make immunizations, antibiotics, and cures (Furedi, 2001). This makes scenarios like that of the Black Death more easily avoided. The disease that ravaged much of the world’s population, spread across Europe, economic change, and lasting fear can be summed up in two words; Black Death. Rat flies help to spread the bubonic plague, leaving a trail of dead bodies in its wake. There was no-one to call for help, because the Doctor and the priest was already dead.
Another method to try and cure the sick was to place dried toads on the red, pussy boils. If the toad swelled up the person was said to be cured because the toad had sucked out all the poison. Sometimes leeches were applied all over the body to suck out the sick blood. This was expensive and many people could not afford a doctor to come and apply the leeches. Doctors could charge as much as they wanted during the Black Plague.