grisi

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Dr. Phil Dennis of Texas Tech University, grisi siknis is typically characterized by long periods of anxiety, nausea, dizziness, irrational anger and fear, interlaced with short periods of rapid frenzy, in which the victim "lose [s] consciousness, believe [s] that devils are beating them and trying to have sexual relations with them".

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Miskito tradition, according to Dennis, holds that grisi siknis is caused by the possession of an evil spirit.

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