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The Unholy Alliance
| Source | http://malcolmsanomalies.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-unholy-alliance.html |
| Author | Malcolm Smith |
| Published | 2022-02-10, 06:34 AM |
| Summary | "If this is 'all in the mind', then all I can say is the mind is a very fertile field." That was a comment made to me by a missionary in Papua New Guinea about some of the bizarre effects of sorcery and folk religions he had noticed in his work. Well, the mind is a very fertile field, and outside the western world it often manifests in strange culture bound syndromes. Koro, for example, is a mental disorder which causes Chinese and Southeast Asian men to imagine that their penises are retracting |
| Discovered via | Malcolm's Musings: Anomalies |
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