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Penal Methods of the Middle Ages

Note 663 — Chapter III · TREATMENT OF THE INSANE

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The same idea is found among many savages. In a certain tribe referred to by Dr. Tylor, “The dancing of women by demoniacal possession is treated ... by the doctor thrashing them soundly with a stick, the demon, and not the patient, being considered to feel the blows.”—Primitive Culture, ii. p. 124.

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