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Anna Elisabeth Michel (21 September 1952 – 1 July 1976) was a German woman who died of malnutrition and Dehydration. She became known because Catholic priests did 67 exorcism rites on her, in the year before she died. Her parents and the priests were convicted of negligent homicide for this. She suffered from epilepsy, and had done a number of psychiatric treatments, which were largely ineffective.

When she was 16, Michel had a seizure and was diagnosed with psychosis caused by temporal lobe epilepsy. Shortly afterwards, she was diagnosed with depression and was treated in a psychiatric hospital. By the time that she was 20, she had become intolerant of various religious objects and began to hear voices. Her condition worsened despite medication, and she became suicidal. She also had other conditons for which she took medication. After taking psychiatric medications for five years failed to improve her symptoms, Michel and her family became convinced she was possessed by a demon. As a result, her family appealed to the Catholic Church for an exorcism. While rejected at first, two priests got permission from the local bishop in 1975. The priests began performing exorcisms and the family stopped consulting doctors. Michel stopped eating food and died of malnourishment and dehydration after 67 exorcism sessions. Michel's parents and the two Roman Catholic priests were found guilty of negligent homicide and were sentenced to six months in jail (reduced to three years of probation), as well as a fine. In a conference several years later, German bishops retracted the claim that she was possessed.

Several movies are based on her story. Among them are The Exorcism of Emily Rose of 2005 , the award-winning 2006 film Requiem and the 2011 film Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes.

Because of the trial, her case became known even outside Germany. The psychiatrist who

On July 1, 1976, Anna Elisabeth “Anneliese” Michel, a twenty-four-year-old college student from the town of Klingenberg in Bavaria, Germany, died of what appeared to be severe battery and starvation. A physician was called to the house to issue a death certificate, but refused on the grounds he was not convinced she died of natural causes, having found her emaciated and with contusions on her face, hands, arms, and legs. Father Ernst Alt, a Jesuit, phoned the district attorney’s office to explain that he had been conducting a series of exorcisms on Anneliese, believing her to be demonically possessed. The case quickly became a sensation, and over the years has been adapted into film several times, most famously in 2005 as The Exorcism of Emily Rose.

It all began when in 1968, around the time of her sixteenth birthday, Anneliese had the first of several seizures. She lost consciousness during school and was found by her classmate to be in a trance-like state. Later that night, Anneliese awoke claiming she felt as if something was pressing down on her. She couldn’t move, couldn’t breathe or speak, and lost control of her bladder. Although the experience frightened her a great deal, when it did not happen again she put it out of her mind. Then, on August 24, 1969, Anneliese suffered another seizure. When examined by neurologist Dr. Siegfried Luthy, her EEG showed “a normal, physiological alpha-type brain activity” (Goodman 1981). Dr. Luthy later explained to investigators, “I judged from the description I was given that this was probably a case of cerebral seizures of the nocturnal type, with the symptoms of a grand mal epilepsy.”

Tonic-Clonic seizures, formerly known as grand mal seizures, comprise two stages: a tonic phase and a clonic phase. According to John Hopkins Medicine, seizures may begin with a simple or complex partial seizure known as an aura during which persons may experience sensations such as unusual smells, vertigo, nausea, or anxiety. During

Woman who died from malnutrition after attempted exorcisms

Anna Elisabeth "Anneliese" Michel (21 September 1952 – 1 July 1976) was a German woman who underwent 67 Catholic exorcism rites during the year before her death. She died of malnutrition, for which her parents and priest were convicted of negligent homicide. She was diagnosed with epileptic psychosis (temporal lobe epilepsy) and had a history of psychiatric treatment that proved ineffective.

When Michel was 16, she experienced a seizure and was diagnosed with psychosis caused by temporal lobe epilepsy. Shortly thereafter, she was diagnosed with depression and was treated by a psychiatric hospital. By the time that she was 20, she had become intolerant of various religious objects and began to hear voices. Her condition worsened despite medication, and she became suicidal, also displaying other symptoms, for which she took medication as well. After taking psychiatric medications for five years failed to improve her symptoms, Michel and her family became convinced she was possessed by a demon. As a result, her family appealed to the Catholic Church for an exorcism. While rejected at first, two priests got permission from the local bishop in 1975. The priests began performing exorcisms and the family stopped consulting doctors. Michel stopped eating food and died of malnourishment and dehydration after 67 exorcism sessions. Michel's parents and the two Catholic priests were found guilty of negligent homicide and were sentenced to six months in jail (reduced to three years of probation), as well as a fine. The Catholic Church retracted the claim that she was possessed and has since described her as mentally ill.

Several films are based on her story, including the 2005 film The Exorcism of Emily Rose, the 2006 film Requiem and the 2011 film Anneliese: The Exorcist Tapes.

Early life

Born Anna El