Enigma: Georg Polti Plots or Storylines - The 36 Dramatic or Tragic Situations
Abstract
This situation contains spectacular theatrical potential enhanced when the hero has to undergo various tests or temptations. Search for a person who must be found on pain of death. If you have been intending to start that novel or screenplay but felt short of ideas, here is the Wise Women’s synopsis of plot to give you a few ideas. May the Goddess inspire you. Saviour Shirlie.
When blindfolded patients are deceived into believing they’re being touched by a leaf such as poison ivy or poison oak, an ugly red contact dermatitis often develops. It is a symptom produced by the mind. What faith-healing may help are mind-mediated or placebo diseases — some back and knee pains, headaches, stuttering, ulcers, stress, hay fever, asthma, hysterical paralysis and blindness, and false pregnancy. These are all diseases in which the state of mind may play a key role. In the late medieval cures associated with apparitions of the Virgin Mary, most were of sudden, short-lived, whole-body or partial paralyses that are plausibly psychogenic. It was also held that only devout believers could be so cured. It’s no surprise that appeals to a state of mind called faith can relieve symptoms caused in part by a realated state of mind.
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