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Voodoo death, a term coined by Walter Cannon in 1942 also known as psychogenic death or psychosomatic death, is the phenomenon of sudden death as brought about by a strong emotional shock, such as fear. The anomaly is recognized as "psychosomatic" in that death is caused by an emotional response—often fear—to some suggested outside force. Voodoo death is observed in native societies, and concentration camps or prisoner of war camps, but the condition is not specific to any particular culture.[1] In 1942, Walter Bradford Cannon, MD, a forerunner of modern physiological psychology, published a work postulating that fear could cause a person's physical condition to deteriorate under psychological distress.[2] Citing examples of extraordinary deaths (and their extraneous circumstances) in aboriginal societies, Cannon posited that fear of supernatural consequences to broken societal taboos caused some deaths witnessed among the natives. What Cannon described has since been termed "bone-poin

Voodoo death - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sudden death brought about by a strong emotional shock, such as fear Voodoo death , also known as psychogenic death or psychosomatic death , is the phenomenon of sudden death as brought about by strong emotional shock such as fear. The anomaly is recognized as "psychosomatic" in that death is caused by an emotional response—often fear—to some suggested outside force. Voodoo death is observed in native societies, and concentration camps or prisoner of war camps , but the condition is not specific to any particular cu

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