9. The Possession of Clara Germana Cele
In 1906, a 16-year-old girl named Clara Germana Cele from Natal, South Africa, confessed to her priest, Father Hörner Erasmus, that she had made a pact with the Satan. According to a nun working at St. Michael’s Mission — where the event took place — she was witnessed understanding and speaking several languages to which she had no prior knowledge, including Polish, German and French. Recordings also state that she demonstrated clairvoyant abilities, levitated five feet in the air, and made ghastly animal noises. Two Roman Catholic priests were called in to perform the exorcism, which lasted two days. Eventually the demon was abolished. While the movie The Exorcist, bears a striking resemblance to Clara’s case, the story is actually based upon a similar event which occurred in Maryland, USA, in the 1940s.
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