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A high-profile shaman who tried to end Sri Lanka's Covid-19 outbreak with "blessed" water has died of the virus, his family said Thursday. In a 2010 interview with AFP, White claimed he had "special powers" since the age of 12.
Eliyantha White, 48, who treated sports stars and top politicians including the country's prime minister, claimed in November he could end the pandemic in Sri Lanka and neighbouring India by pouring pots of his "blessed" water into rivers. Mainstream doctors described White as a fraud and Ayurveda physicians rejected his claims -- even though the shaman said he used methods from the 3,000-year-old Indian medical tradition.
Health minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi endorsed the water treatment,
but was infected two months later and ended up in a hospital intensive care unit. She was later demoted, and lost her portfolio, but remains in the cabinet.
White's family said he had refused the Covid-19 vaccine. His body was cremated at Colombo's main cemetery on Thursday in line with quarantine regulations.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210923-sri-lanka-shaman-dies-of-covid-after-touting-blessed-water-cure
Ohio Joe
(21,656 posts)I hope he did not kill too many others with his lies.
bahboo
(16,234 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,208 posts)malaise
(267,831 posts)That is all
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Wingus Dingus
(8,049 posts)Did the river water dilute the blessed properties too much? Should he have poured the blessed waters onto himself? Should he have drunk it? Just not enough time to get it sorted.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
Hekate
(90,202 posts)Just sayin