Shit, this crap is still going on here in America in some places.
In 1994 I worked for a developmentally disabled adult agency and learned that a lot of the clients had been chained in basements or inside cages because the family was afraid of the villages & towns folk finding out they had a “possessed” child. 😢😡
One guy was so traumatized by being stuck in a cage for his entire childhood, (when I worked there he was in his late 20s), he carried around a large ring of keys.
The area I went to college (well, one of the 3 I attended), was in the San Luis Valley of Colorado. Small rural Spanish/Mexican villages that have been around for gods knows how long. Superstitions were, (are?), a way of life there.
It was heartbreaking and unfortunately several of the clients, including the guy I mentioned, would often hallucinate and turn violent when they got afraid or believed something/someone was coming for them. I only lasted 8 months.
@see_the_sus I used to work with a girl a while ago who swore a rival magic user was sending shadow people to the hotel we worked at to cause problems. Those are called bitchy guests not shadow demons.
@see_the_sus @Heucuva8 that’s messed up. Sometimes there’s no such thing as a harmless superstition.