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On the Two Cases of Frog-possession: Batracanthropia Shinji Satoh 1,3 , Keiju Sugano 1,3 , Yoshihide Takaesu 1,3 , Matuei Miyasaka 2 , Susumu Oda 2 1Kooriyama Mental Hospital 2Dokkyo Univ. School of Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry 3Tokyo Medical & Dental Univ., Dept. of Neuro-Psychiatry pp.243-252
Published Date 1975/3/15
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1405202289
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 This reports the occurrence of frog-possession (Batracanthropia) in two psychiatric patients. Over the last century, many authors have noted cases of possession by foxes, the most popular form of animal possession in Japan, but this is the first psychiatric record of frog-possession. The syndrome should be considered equivalent to demonic possession in Western cultures.

 One case was a shizophrenic male of 24 years and the second involved a psychogenic reaction in a 31 years old female. Frog-possession appeared in the two cases during acute psychiatric episodes as a means of escape from awkward situation. Both cases occurred in a rice-producing area of northeast Japan where the frog has a traditional symbolic meaning of a protecting deity of a paddy cultivatlon.


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