Choban Choban:
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religious fervor has made them see the devil instead of a naked guy
Sad but true, alot of the African tribes believe in arcane things that would make you or I scratch our heads, very sad a child had to die because of it.
Culture-bound syndrome
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In medicine and medical anthropology, a culture-specific syndrome or culture-bound syndrome is a combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms that are considered to be a recognizable disease only within a specific society or culture. There are no objective biochemical or structural alterations of body organs or functions, and the disease is not recognized in other cultures. While a substantial portion of mental disorders, in the way they are manifested and experienced, are at least partially conditioned by the culture in which they are found, some disorders are more culture-specific than others.
DSM-IV list of culture-bound syndromes
The fourth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders classifies the below syndromes as culture-bound syndromes[8]:
Name Geographical localization/populations
amok Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Brunei, Singapore
ataque de nervios Latinos
bilis, cólera Latinos
bouffée délirante West Africa and Haiti
brain fag West African students
dhat Indian
falling-out, blacking out Southern United States and Caribbean
ghost sickness American Indian
hwa-byung, wool-hwa-byung Korean
koro Chinese and Malaysian populations in southeast Asia; Assam; occasionally in West
latah Malaysia and Indonesia
locura Latinos in the United States and Latin America
mal de ojo Mediterranean; Hispanic populations
nervios Latinos in the United States and Latin America
pibloktoq Arctic and subarctic Eskimo populations
qi-gong psychotic reaction Chinese
rootwork African American and White populations in southern United States; Caribbean
sangue dormido Portuguese populations in Cape Verde
shenjing shuairuo Chinese
shen-k'uei, shenkui Chinese
shin-byung Korean
spell African American and White populations in the southern United States
susto Latinos in the United States; Mexico, Central America and South America
taijin kyofusho Japanese
zār Ethiopia, Somalia, Egypt, Sudan, Iran, and other North African and Middle Eastern societies