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Country

Tanzania

cases
2
years
1962–1995

Disputed: 1 Explained: 1

  1. 1960–1969

    1. 1962–1963 Possessions and exorcisms · Explained The Laughter Epidemic at Kashasha Mission girls' school at Kashasha near Bukoba In 1962 three girls at a school by Lake Victoria began to laugh and could not stop. Soon hundreds of people had “caught” it, and schools were being closed.

  2. 1990–1999

    1. 1995 Spectral creatures and night demons · Disputed Popobawa – the Night Demon of Zanzibar Zanzibar Town, Unguja Island In 1995 panic swept Zanzibar: families spent the night around fires, afraid of the “bat wing” – a demon that attacks people in their sleep.