Monday, February 16, 2009

ARE DEMON SIGHTINGS the result of eye disease or artificially induced equivalents? At Omphalos, Aharon Varady asks,
Could Raba’s magic recipe for perceiving demons by placing ash in one’s eye create a condition like Charles Bonnet Syndrome? Could Rav Huna’s 10:1 ratio of ubiquitous albeit invisible demons indicate a left-brained dominance when perceiving/hallucinating these creatures? Curious minds wish to know the answer to these arcane questions.
Doesn't sound terribly compelling to me - I'm not sure why ashes in the eye would simulate macular degeneration - but I suppose it's possible. Anyhow, an interesting and entertaining post.

(Via Boing Boing as pointed out to me by Michael Lyons.)