Liquid Millionaire - isaco

Stephen Sutherland
“…a young aborigine who, during a journey, slept at an older friend’s
home. For breakfast, the friend had prepared a meal consisting of
wild hen, a food which the young were strictly prohibited from
eating. The young man demanded to know whether the meal
consisted of wild hen and the host responded ‘No.’ The young man
then ate the meal and departed. Several years later, when the two
friends met again, the older man asked his friend whether he would
now eat a wild hen. The young man said he would not since he had
been solemnly ordered not to do so by his elder tribesman. The
older man laughed and told him how he had been previously tricked
into eating this forbidden food. The young man became extremely
frightened and started to tremble. Within twenty-four hours he
was dead!
In the Western world, many equivalents to voodoo death have been
discovered in case histories.
‘You will die,’ the fortune teller predicted, ‘when you are 43.’
That prediction was made 38 years before when the fortune teller’s
client was 5 years old. The little girl grew up with the awesome
prediction on her mind–and died one week after her 43 rd birthday,
said a report in the British Medical Journal.
‘We wonder if the severe emotional tensions of this patient
superimposed on the physiological stress of surgery had any
bearing upon her death,’ the doctors said.
They suggested she may have been frightened to death and said the
case was that of an apparently healthy woman, a mother of fi ve,
who underwent a relatively minor operation. Two days later she
was dead.
The doctors said that the night before the woman confessed to
her sister–who knew of the fortune telling incident–that she did
not expect to awaken from the anaesthesia. On the morning of
the operation, the woman told a nurse she was certain she was
going to die. An hour after the operation she collapsed and lost
consciousness. A post mortem revealed extensive internal bleeding
for which there was no reasonable explanation. A spokesman
from the British Medical Association said, ‘There is no medical
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