RICHARD
08-06-2004, 11:36 AM
Girls' school closed after pupils started acting like cats
An Indian girls' school has been closed down after its students fell ill and reportedly began behaving like cats
Teachers at the school in Dolagobind in Orissa said at least a dozen students have suffered the mystery illness.
All of them started fainting and, after waking up, started behaving like cats, reports Asian News International.
The affected girls, aged eight to 12, clawed their own faces and shrieked like cats after the fainting spells.
The management called witch doctors to remove the 'evil spirits' but said they had no option but to shut down the school when the abnormal behaviour persisted.
School headmistress Manjubala Pande told the news agency: "First three girls fell down when they came to school. We thought they hadn't had food so we gave them something to eat but after that also they were not normal and behaved strangely.
"Next day again some six-seven girls started crying, fell down on the floor making sounds like that of a cat. We immediately informed others in the village but after the faintings and behaviour were repeated we were forced to shut the school".
The affected children have been since shifted to an ashram or hermitage run by a local saint where they are being made to recite Hindu religious hymns and undergo fire rituals to drive the spirits away.
It is reported parents of the affected students said the children had shown some improvement but were unable to recall exactly what had happened.
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Wouldn't some kibble and litter been a better treatment strategy?
Sounds like an end of semester prank.......not that I would know about that....
;)
An Indian girls' school has been closed down after its students fell ill and reportedly began behaving like cats
Teachers at the school in Dolagobind in Orissa said at least a dozen students have suffered the mystery illness.
All of them started fainting and, after waking up, started behaving like cats, reports Asian News International.
The affected girls, aged eight to 12, clawed their own faces and shrieked like cats after the fainting spells.
The management called witch doctors to remove the 'evil spirits' but said they had no option but to shut down the school when the abnormal behaviour persisted.
School headmistress Manjubala Pande told the news agency: "First three girls fell down when they came to school. We thought they hadn't had food so we gave them something to eat but after that also they were not normal and behaved strangely.
"Next day again some six-seven girls started crying, fell down on the floor making sounds like that of a cat. We immediately informed others in the village but after the faintings and behaviour were repeated we were forced to shut the school".
The affected children have been since shifted to an ashram or hermitage run by a local saint where they are being made to recite Hindu religious hymns and undergo fire rituals to drive the spirits away.
It is reported parents of the affected students said the children had shown some improvement but were unable to recall exactly what had happened.
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Wouldn't some kibble and litter been a better treatment strategy?
Sounds like an end of semester prank.......not that I would know about that....
;)