voodoo death

Cannon reported on a phenomenon that he called "voodoo death."

Voodoo death, which occurs after a hex has been put on the victim, is perhaps an extreme example of the nocebo effect.

Safran travels to Togo for a voodoo death, and later confronts his ex girlfriend he remains obsessed with.

Mathis proposes that "fatal psychosomatic conditions" were the cause of this man's death, and thus a form of voodoo death.

Crash Callahan and the Voodoo Death God.'

The advent of theories concerning voodoo death within the scientific field has also led to the development of a branch of psychology termed psychophysiology.

Voodoo death is particularly noted in native societies, and concentration or prisoner of war camps, but the condition is not specific to any culture or death.

In the same way Marcus seems to have "cursed" Patrick, an Irish poet who has taken to his bed to await what anthropologists call a voodoo death.

Notably, Samuels has studied "voodoo death", or death caused by fright or intense emotion, which triggers a series of neuro-physiological changes through high levels of adrenaline.

The phenomenon is recognized as psychosomatic in that death is caused by an emotional response -often fear- to some suggested outside force and is known as "voodoo death."

Criticisms that generally come against Cannon's work are directed at the hearsay nature of Cannon's case studies, but recent studies have discovered numerous examples of voodoo death in various societies.

VOODOO DEATH by Maxwell Grant As originally published in "The Shadow Magazine," June 1944.

Despite Cannon's general ignorance on the particulars of physiological breakdown, scientists in the intervening years since the publication of Cannon's work, have generally agreed with his fundamental hypotheses concerning voodoo death.

Cannon's theory concerning voodoo death opened research into various fields of psychological studies; since the publication of Cannon's work, scientists have discovered many disorders and the like related to psychosomatic responses to situations.

Indeed, the reality of voodoo death - documented death following the placement of a hex by one person on another - must in itself give pause to the skeptic who doubts the power of mind over body.

Voodoo death, a term coined by Walter Cannon in 1942 also known as psychogenic death or psychosomatic death, is the phenomenon of sudden death as brought about by a strong emotional shock, such as fear.

Walter Cannon ended his 1942 paper with a request that anyone who observed a case of voodoo death try to conduct more tests upon the subject; unlike the researchers on the last page, he lacked an ethically responsible way to study voodoo death.

To those who allege difficulty in the experimental process of validating Cannon's theory, Barbara W. Lex, in her 1974 article titled, "Voodoo Death: New Thoughts on an Old Explanation," states that "Voodoo death" can easily be observed without complicated experiments: