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In 2021, words such as devil, ghost and exorcism are unlikely to be seen in serious news.
However, in Russia, the Theological Committee of the Orthodox Church is racking its brains to think about how to let ordinary people learn to exorcise demons correctly. Hilarion, the minister of external relations of the
church, recently said on Russian television that the church is already preparing a proposal to provide a unified set of national exorcism rituals.
At that time, ordinary people need to strictly follow the regulations to handle matters related to exorcism.
He also said that the focus of this regulation is "leaving the work of exorcising devils to professional clergy" and cannot operate it at will.
The church will send a priest to conduct an on-site inspection before deciding whether to exorcise the devil.
Hey, wait, how could anyone take this matter so seriously?
... Is there really someone who can exorcise evil spirits?
Yes, Russian folk are indeed obsessed with exorcisms.
The church promulgated this new regulation because too many people were messing around and even killed people...
Historically, exorcism has always been a traditional project of the Orthodox Church. When people think that a person is possessed by an evil spirit, they will ask the priest to read scriptures and sprinkle holy water to drive the evil spirit out of the person.
According to modern scientific concepts, there is no such thing as possession by evil spirits. People are more likely to have mental illness, or be overly excited and fall into hysteria.
But since the 1990s, exorcism culture has flourished in Russia.
Every household stares at the small abnormalities that may appear in the home, thinking that it is the devil at work.
Last year, a video of a family exorcism circulated on Russian social media. A pair of parents took turns holding down their 10-year-old son, clasping his hands behind his back and pressing his head onto the sofa and bed. In the
video, the boy can be heard shouting in pain as his mother shouts: "Peel the garlic! The devil hates garlic!".
The boy's younger brother sat uneasily on the side, and his father asked him to make the sign of the cross on his brother's head.
reporters interviewed that the reason why they did this was because they heard strange noises at home and saw objects floating.
A cleric told them that their eldest son might be possessed. The couple heard that it made sense, so they forcibly locked him up and poured holy water and garlic cloves on him. After the video of
was released, the Russian Church condemned this behavior and believed that the boy was obviously very normal and healthy.
Church spokesman Vladimir Legoida said the family needed a psychiatrist.
"Many people regard exorcism as a panacea to solve everyday problems.
Are you an alcoholic? Exorcise the demon.
The child doesn't do his homework? Exorcise the demon.
Choosing a random person, especially a child, and saying he is possessed by the devil is really dangerous and harmful."
But this boy is lucky, at least he is fine.
Last year, another little boy was directly driven to death.
(the boy in distress with the pseudonym David.K)
In Yekaterinburg , the Disciples of Jesus Christ believe that there is evil power among its members, and the source of the power comes from a 9-year-old boy.
In order to purify him, the sect asked the boy's mother to hold down his body, and asked his father and other church members to take turns whipping him with a whip and gagging his mouth with a cloth.
They believe that beatings can drive away demons. The harder the beating, the cleaner the demons will go.
When spanking a child, one should not care about the pain he feels at the moment, because in hell, he will suffer even greater pain.
So I beat him to save him.
The boy was then beaten to death.
The sect initially thought that the devil was gone and the boy was still alive.They spent two days resurrecting the boy, but of course failed, and had to bury the body in a forest near a lake in the eastern Ural Mountains.
(Where the body was found)
The boy's aunt found out about the incident and secretly reported it to the police. The boy's father was arrested and his mother was detained in Belarus and is being extradited.
Zemfira Gaiina, the leader of the sect who promoted the matter, said they had done nothing wrong.
"Countless times, people have persecuted us in the name of Jesus Christ, but no one can blame us for doing these things because we are sinless. No one can prohibit us from living a life led by Jesus Christ."
(Arrested sect leader Zemfira Gaiina)
Alexander Neveev, a religious scientist who studies the sect, bluntly said that these are people with sick minds. "People whose minds are full of absurdities and fallacies do not understand that children themselves should not be harmed."
In addition to this murder case, in 2019, a middle-aged man was strangled to death by his mother because he was obsessed with the occult.
Because she suspected that her son was bewitched by the devil.
A few days ago, a 5-year-old boy was scalded to death by his mother with boiling water, and his body was dumped on the balcony of an apartment in St. Petersburg .
The reason is also that he is suspected of being possessed by a demon.
Among the many horrific exorcisms, the most brutal occurred on Christmas Eve in 2011.
In the city of Voronezh, 49-year-old taxi driver Sergei Koshimbetov and 50-year-old teacher Elena Antonova suspected that their daughter was married to a devil.
They thought her husband was behaving strangely and forced her to divorce, but the 26-year-old woman refused.
So, on Christmas Eve, they tied up their daughter, beat her for several hours, and then force-fed her 5 liters of holy water.
After that, the mother pulled out part of her daughter's intestines with her hands, and then the couple trampled her body with their feet, trampling her to death.
The next day, their young daughter called an ambulance. The tragedy at home shocked the medical staff.
(The younger daughter Olga was only 13 years old when she reported the crime)
The woman's body was not human-shaped, her internal organs were cut out of her body, and her two arms were held up like they were tied to a cross.
But the couple insisted that they did nothing wrong and believed that they were saving their daughter. They even wrapped their daughter in a blanket after she stopped breathing and told relatives she would come back to life in three days.
The morbid fear of the unknown has led Russians to turn exorcisms into domestic violence and even murder.
In order to stop all this, the Russian Church banned exorcisms on children and last year expressed its disapproval of family exorcisms, but with little success.
There is really no other way. Now they have to issue canons that prohibit ordinary people from exorcising demons without authorization. Only "priests with strong spiritual power" can do this. Moreover, this must also be carried out with the approval of the church.
Hilarion, a senior church official, said that it is not convenient to reveal specific measures at the moment, but he believes that these folk exorcisms can be effectively curbed when regulations are issued.
It is said to be exorcism, but I feel that these exorcists are the most terrifying demons...
ref:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9463041/Russian-Orthodox-Church-warns-against-DIY-exorcisms-deaths.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/leave-exorcisms -to-priests-says-russian-orthodox-church-qb8jc7mm0
https://www.rt.com/russia/520779-professional-exorcism s-orthodox-church-proposal/amp/
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2011/11/03/2003517372
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