The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect: When Intense Belief Kills
While people of all cultures experience sleep paralysis in similar ways, the specific form and intensity it takes varies by culture
Rob Henderson
175d ago
"Something was killing Hmong men in their sleep...In a sense, the Hmong were killed by their beliefs in the spirit world, even if the mechanism of their deaths was likely an obscure genetic cardiac arrhythmia that is prevalent in southeast Asia."
2