title: Severe illness with anxiety following a reputed magical act on an Australian aboriginal.
abstract: A case of extreme anxiety is described in an Aboriginal man who believed he had been subjected to magical influences. It is hypothesized that extreme anxiety accompanied by a refusal to eat or drink (the latter feature being part of the Aboriginal belief system under these conditions) is part, or all, of the mechanism of death from magical influences.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology*; D001315:Australia; D004327:Drinking Behavior; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008273:Magic; D008297:Male; D000095283:Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples