Malaysian school hit by 'mass hysteria' still closed, but journalists hear screams..

[eErotica69]

Malaysian school hit by 'mass hysteria' still closed, but journalists hear screams from the classrooms

KOTA BARU (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The gates of a school in Malaysia's state of Kelantan, where students have been plauged by "mass hysteria", were closed to reporters on Sunday (April 17) - the day the school was set to reopen - but screams were heard coming from the classrooms.

SMK Pengkalan Chepa 2 was shut down for three days last Thursday to allow bomohs, ustaz and Islamic traditional practitioners to rid the place of bad spirits.

It does not seem to be working.

ressmen and photographers, who were stationed in front of the school, were shocked to hear the screaming and shouts emanating from the school compounds.

The school administration has conducted a two-hour recital of Quranic verses and held prayers together with the students.

It is learnt that a Chinese bomoh from Perak and his team entered the school compounds to assist in the situation.

More than 50 students and teachers affected by 'mass hysteria' at school in Malaysian city of Kota Baru

At about 11.30am, more screams and shouts were heard, and attempts by the media to enter the school were unsuccessful.

Last Monday to Wednesday, more than 100 female and male students and teachers were allegedly struck by mass hysteria to the extent that the school was forced to shut down on Thursday to avoid more students from being possessed.

School principal Siti Hawa Mat and district education officials could not be reached for comment on Sunday.

At a press conference in Kelantan state capital Kota Baru on Thursday, Ms Siti said the closure of the school in Pengkalan Chepa was necessary to enable the bomoh and ustaz to perform prayers before the school was set to reopen on Sunday.

She said the studies of students of SMK Pengkalan Chepa 2 were disrupted, and her administration was at their wits' end to find a way to rid the school of "bad spirits".

Students and teachers have claimed to have seen paranormal beings like black spectres, pontianak and pochong.

 

[mojito]

Re: Malaysian school hit by 'mass hysteria' still closed, but journalists hear scream

They turned on the internets and saw the wedding photos that went viral lah.

 

[Victory2016]

Re: Malaysian school hit by 'mass hysteria' still closed, but journalists hear scream

Only affects Malays - this is a scientific fact ......


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Malays suffer from three illnesses that other races do not seem to suffer from: melatah, mengamuk and mass hysteria.

The English colonial masters were probably quite surprised the first time they saw a Malay mengamuk. They probably asked the penghulu (village chief) what was wrong with that chap who was waving his keris all over the place while running helter-skelter into the crowd screaming and trying to stab all and sundry.

The penghulu probably replied, “Dia mengamuk, Tuan.”

Mengamuk? Not having an equivalent word to mengamuk in the English language, the Orang Puteh probably told his chums over beer that night, “There was this chap today who was running amok, wailing like a banshee and trying to stab everyone with his keris.”

Hence the phrase ‘running amok’ stuck in the English language until today.

Melatah is definitely found only in Malay culture. When a person suffers from melatah and you shock that person, he or she would jump up, sometimes dance or go into silat moves, and will say all sorts of things involuntarily. In short, that person would have lost control and would have taken leave of his or her senses. I have personally seen this happen a number of times.

There was one unique case about 30 years ago that happened in Kuala Terengganu. Two latah persons, a man and a woman, got into a lift. It was lunchtime and the lift was pretty crowded.

One prankster poked the latah man in his side and said, “Boo!” The man suddenly shouted, “Burit!” The latah woman reacted and shouted, “Puki!” The latah man then responded, again, with “Burit!” So it went on and on, the man shouting ‘burit’ and the woman shouting ‘puki’, until the lift reached the ground floor and the doors opened.

From that day on they never both got into the lift at the same time.

What causes this? No one knows but it seems only Malays suffer from this. And that is why when someone talks cock the Malays would say, “Dia tu melatah.”

The third illness of the Malays is mass hysteria. Now, however, it seems like this illness has infected the non-Malays as well. There have been many cases of mass hysteria where, say, one schoolgirl suddenly starts screaming and/or fainting and the entire classroom or even the entire school gets infected by this screaming/fainting fit.

Normally a western-trained doctor can do nothing for these people. They would need to call in a bomoh (witch doctor) to help exorcise the spirit or spirits that was causing this phenomenon. After the bomoh has chased the spirits away or has made offerings to politely request the spirit or spirits to move on and leave the girls alone would things get back to normal.

All it needs is for one person to start — scream, faint, tear his or her out, strip naked and run all over the place, or whatever. Immediately everyone will get infected and will join in the hysteria. And only a bomoh can restore order again.

http://www.malaysia-today.net/mass-hysteria-syndrome-of-the-malays/

 

[harimau]

Re: Malaysian school hit by 'mass hysteria' still closed, but journalists hear scream

Allah dun work need bomoh?

Like that pray to Allah for fark?

 

[gingerlyn]

Re: Malaysian school hit by 'mass hysteria' still closed, but journalists hear scream

do u notice that all of them are muslim? this is easy.
they need to eat more pork.
They can use Bacon and Egg to cook Nasi Goring.
this problem can be solved.

 

[yellowarse]

Re: Malaysian school hit by 'mass hysteria' still closed, but journalists hear scream

Mass hysteria can hit any people, regardless of race or culture. But there's a strong cultural overlay in the way it's expressed in a specific population.

In Malays, mengamuk ('running amok') is a documented manifestation; in Singaporean Chinese, it's koro.

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14 May 2006

The Great Koro Epidemic of 1967

While trawling the net for entirely innocent factoids, I came across this footnote of local history known as The Great Koro Epidemic of 1967.
Koro is a mental condition in which men become obsessed with their penis (err…. doesn’t this happen all the time?), believing it to be afflicted by shrinkage with the ultimate result of retraction into the body (my duck suspects some men wouldn’t see it so negatively, hehe). Some sources cite a role in Chinese metaphysical beliefs, where abnormal sexual acts (visiting prostitutes, masturbation or nocturnal emissions) disturb the yin-yang balance, leading to a loss of the yang (or male) force with accompanying consequences on key organs.

Apparently, countless Singapore men were afflicted with a raging delusion that their penises were shrinking and retracting into the body, a fate which causes mass panic and mortal anxiety. This phenomenon, known as Koro, arose following press reports of Koro cases due to the consumption of pork from a pig that had been inoculated against swine fever. Needless to say, pork sellers had a bad year (I wonder if duck sellers did better?). The coy headline of the Straits Times on 5 Nov 1967 (A Strange Malady Hits Singapore Men) gave little indication of the true girth of the problem.

Professor Kua Ee Heok of the Department of Psychological Medicine, National University of Singapore, in his monograph, Transcultural Psychiatry, has this to say of Koro:

“Koro refers to a syndrome, which has for its central theme a fear of death due to the person’s conviction that his penis is shrinking into the abdomen. The panic-stricken man often clutches on to his penis with bewildered spouse and relatives assisting. The term koro is thought to derive from the Malay word kura which means “tortoise” – the symbolic meaning is that the penile retraction is compared with the retraction of the head of the tortoise into its shell. The syndrome in traditional Chinese medicine is known as suo-yang, which literally means shrinkage of the male sexual organ. In women it may take the form of retraction of the vulval labia or nipple.

Koro is often viewed as a form of panic disorder with the symptom-complex of fear of penile retraction and impending death, palpitations, sweating, breathlessness and paraesthesia. The factors, which contribute to the occurrence of koro, include beliefs and attitudes pertaining to sexuality. A common Chinese belief is that the loss of semen weakens the body, and loss of yang occurs with masturbation and nocturnal emission. The loss of semen through sexual excesses is thought in traditional Chinese belief to lead to fatal ill-health. Personality traits associated with koro have been described as nervous temperament, suggestibility, sensitivity and immaturity.”

Dr. Kua also cites a report in the Singapore Medical Journal (1963, 4, 119-121) in which Dr. Gwee AL, describes a Koro case involving a male Chinese aged 34, seen on 24 March 1956.

“He was at a cinema show when he felt the need to micturate. He went out to the latrine in the foyer and, as he was easing himself, he felt a sudden loss of feeling in the genital region, and straightaway, the thought occurred to him that he was going to get penile retraction. Sure enough, he soon noticed that he penis was getting shorter. Intensely alarmed, he held on to his penis with his right hand and shouted for help, which however was not forthcoming as the latrine was deserted during the show. He felt cold in the limbs, and was weak all over, and his legs gave way under him. So he sat down on the floor, all this time holding on to his penis. About half an hour later, the attack abated.”

Dr. Gwee also authored a later study (in the Singapore Medical Journal 1969, 10, 234-242) about the 1967 epidemic, which affected over 500 persons. From this report, Kua notes the following sociological background to the outbreak:

“ …before the outbreak of the epidemic, there was concern about chickens being injected with oestrogen to increase their growth. Some men were afraid that the oestrogen in the chicken would cause gynaecomastia and avoided chicken meat. At about the same time, there was a rumour that contaminated pork was being sold on the market and that diseased pigs were being inoculated against swine fever. This triggered off the epidemic and a possible explanation of the outbreak is that the inoculation of the pigs was seen to be similar to the injection of chickens with oestrogen."

It was also noted that the epidemic “subsided rapidly after ressurance and explanation from the doctors through television, radio and newspaper.”
Chris Buckle of the University of Ottawa, highlights the Singapore Koro Epidemic in his study entitled: A Conceptual History of Koro.

“In July 1967, all swine in the country were inoculated with an anti-swine fever vaccine. It was an event that brought much public concern and considerable media attention.

On October 29, 1967, rumors began to circulate that the consumption of this inoculated pork was causing men’s genitalia to retract. It is unknown how, why or where in Singapore the rumors began. However, there is some evidence that the kosher Malays were blamed for the event, an accusation in line with the background of racial tension that plagued Singapore in the nineteen sixties. While this idea was not described in the government controlled Chinese or English language media, personal accounts do give it credence.

On October 30th a small Chinese language paper reported that “people developed koro after eating the meat of pigs inoculated with anti-swine fever vaccine”. A few days later, the same paper reported that an inoculated pig had died from penile retraction.”

Within the week, public hospitals were seeing hundreds of koro patients, and Buckle notes that no statistics exist for the presumably high number of individuals who were treated by family or traditional Chinese physicians. It was reported that "men resorted to clamps, pegs, and even weights to ensure that their tackle remained in its rightful place."

Reflecting perhaps the high degree of public trust in state bodies in those good old days, koro cases increase exponentially following a statement by the then-Ministry of Primary Production (now AVA) that “emphatically denied rumors of pork contamination.” Buckle writes that as a result, “an alarmed Ministry of National Development issued an immediate statement claiming that ‘no one in Singapore need worry over the safety of pork from pigs slaughtered at the government abattoir where every carcass is carefully examined and stamped as fit for human consumption before they are released to the market’”.

The outbreak subsided after press statements by the Singapore Medical Association that “koro is a culturally determined form of emotional ill-health affecting primarily the Chinese…the present incidence of koro is essentially due to fear and rumors which have no foundation”. Meanwhile, advertisements for Australian pork began to appear in the papers. The Chinese-language Nanyang also reported that a man in the ministry of production had apologised for comments about the link between the swine vaccine and koro. The final nail on koro’s coffin came with the televised statement of the Deputy Director of Medical Services, Dr. Lim Guan Ho, who stressed that koro “is only a disease of the mind and the victim requires no medical treatment at all.”


14 May 2006 in Life in Singapore | Permalink

 

[no_faith]

Re: Malaysian school hit by 'mass hysteria' still closed, but journalists hear scream

Allah dun work need bomoh?

Like that pray to Allah for fark?

He busy farking, no time for this.

Maybe they should use coconut again.

 

[Asterix]

Re: Malaysian school hit by 'mass hysteria' still closed, but journalists hear scream

Mass hysteria can hit any people, regardless of race or culture. But there's a strong cultural overlay in the way it's expressed in a specific population.

In Malays, mengamuk ('running amok') is a documented manifestation; in Singaporean Chinese, it's koro.

Sell when the crowd is screaming buy and buy when the crowd is screaming sell ...........

[video=youtube;dOcYTOBA0CI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOcYTOBA0CI[/video]

 

[congo9]

Re: Malaysian school hit by 'mass hysteria' still closed, but journalists hear scream

do u notice that all of them are muslim? this is easy.
they need to eat more pork.
They can use Bacon and Egg to cook Nasi Goring.
this problem can be solved.

Years of education cannot rescue these Peasants from these superstition beliefs. There is no Ghost. Why the Ghost did not go look for Najib instead of these poor School going kids ?

Sometimes being lazy is ok, but when you are lazy and stupid. There is not much anyone can do.

 

[scroobal]

Re: Malaysian school hit by 'mass hysteria' still closed, but journalists hear scream

Have seen all the 3 types. Running amok was quite common in Singapore among the Malays in the early years. The mass hysteria was common in factories in Singapore including those manned by Chinese women in large assembly lines. Yellowarse also mentions Koro which is similar and affected the Chinese. The third type called Melatah, I saw it with a Singapore Malay goalkeeper with one of our top local clubs. The guy would go into a trance for a minute or two mumbling at sort of thing when I someone touched him on the sides. He was well known for this affliction. Would not believe it I until I saw it.

Mahathir also mentions the amok phenomenon among the Malays in his book.

The mass hysteria in the factories in the 70s was a quite challenge. They had to stop work altogether and could not resume for hours. Sometimes they were allowed to go home. It has occurred all over the world

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_hysteria

Only affects Malays - this is a scientific fact ......

 

[sukhoi-30]

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http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/11/mass-exorcisms-performed-on-students-in-the-philippines/


Nothing to do with religion. It also happened in Christian Philippines and Puerto Rico. Perhaps its in the genes.

 

[GoldenDragon]

Re: Malaysian school hit by 'mass hysteria' still closed, but journalists hear scream

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/11/mass-exorcisms-performed-on-students-in-the-philippines/


Nothing to do with religion. It also happened in Christian Philippines and Puerto Rico. Perhaps its in the genes.

welcome back, bro.

 

[virus]

Re: Malaysian school hit by 'mass hysteria' still closed, but journalists hear scream

ok ok

who is the smart alec that buried the old fart in malaysia instead of cremating him?